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VOLUME IV, No 6 


Council Meeting 

The regular meeting of the 
Village Council, Thursday, July 
6. 1916. HKeeve and councillors 
present. Meeting opened at 
8.30 p.m. 

Minutes of the previous regu- 
lar and special meeting were 
read and passed, 


Fire Dept— Hick’s Rooming 
House and Dairy Lunch, $20 


Empress Hardware $2.00 
J. H. Williamson . . $38.80 
Empress Express 10.40 
R. G. McIntyre, coal 4.00 


M. A. Blodgett, insurance, 10.00 
Thos, Leach, 700 lbs, hog 
teed ( ( ' . 7,80 


Empress Lumber Yard 13.00 
Alberta Mach. Shop. 3.00 
G, L. Brown 19.07 
A. Sturgron ; 3.00 
N. D. Storey 72.70 
After consideration of the 


merits of various other makes, 
an order was yiven R. G. Me- 
Intyre for a Can. Giant Wind- 
mill, 12ft. wheel, 40ft twin auto- 
matic shut-off [Ideal regulator] 
connected to tank and fully 
guaranteed for $286.85. 


Discussion followed regarding 
the construction of a cistern or 
tank for water storage. The 
matter was left over for fur- 
ther consideration. 


CARBOR LAKE ITEMS 


Mr. Leslie Montgomery, who 
has becn teaching schvol in On- 
tario, has come to spend his 
vacation with his parents, of 
this vicinity. 


Mr. D. A. Smith and brother 
John, of Pinkham, Sask., have 
each taken up a half section of 
land in this locality, and expect 
to make this their future home. 


A neighborhuod picnic was 
held on July Ist at the home of 
Mr. W. H. Bachelder. The day 
being perfect all had a pleasant 
time. There was sports of all 
kinds in the afternoon, while 
the ladies bringing their bas- 
kets with them, spread a very 
appetising lunch, In the even- 
ing the tubles were cleared and 
room made, for we could al- 
ready hear the melodion music, 
which was furnished by Messrs. 
Weiger and McKenzie. Must 
of the crowd stayed for the 
evening and until close to the 
short hours of the morning 
took part in the dance, 


Mr. Herman Gaddis had the 
misfortune to lose a fine horse 
in the electric storm last week. 


Mr. Acoch, who has been do- 
ing some duties on his home- 
stead in this locality, left last 
week for Luseland. Mr, Acoch 
expects to return with his wite 
in a couple of weeks. 


Mr, Allan Scovy has been 
somewhat under. the weather 
with boils, but we understand 
Allun’s pets are getting along 
nicely now. 

Mr. Waguer had the misfor- 
tune to lose a good horse last 
woek, 

Mr. Feryus Jones,of Empress, 
spent the week-end in this 
locality. 

Two of our neighbor boys, 
Messrs, Parker and Hitchcock, 
have enlisted, and lett for the 
training camp last week, 

Mr, Jack Badger was a guest 
at Mr, Allan Scovy’s last Satur- 


day and Snnday, 

Mr, and Mrs, E, French spent 
Sunday at the home of Mr, W. 
H. Bachelder. 


SERBIAN RELIEF 

The following letter from the 
London Committee in control 
of Serbian Relief Work ex- 
plains the need for Serbian Re- 
lief Funds now being raised in 
Canada: 

“We are co-operating with 
the French Government in 
maintaining large.colonies tor 
Serbian refugees in Corsica and 
Southern France aud we have 


‘dent Serbian Relief Committee, 


also undertaken to relieve the 
distress [by sending fvod and 
clothing] of 60,000 Serbian pris- 
oners in Germany. 

“In addition a hospital unit 
has been despatched to Corfu 
for the use of the Serbian 
army. 

On Saturday, there arrived 
in this country 160 Serbian 
children who are now housed 
at Oxford. ‘lhe Serbian Relief 
Fund has undertaken to edu- 
cate and maintain these chil- 
dren, so that you can readily 
understand that funds are still 
urgently needed to enable us to 


successfully carry on these 
many important  undertak- 
ings, 


How much money can you 
spare to feed and clothe 
these Serbian prisoners, provide 
medical necessities tor tne Ser- 
bian army, or educate the Ser- 
bian children who have been 
sent to Englund? Maal it to- 
day to Mr. J. S. Dennis, presi- 


Calgary, or Rev. KE. Cox Clarke, 
Secretary, 509 18th Avenue 
West, Calgary. 


R. M. of Acadia 


Regular meeting of the Coun- 
cil of the Rural Municipality of 


To the Editors of the Empress 
Express: 


Please publish for the infor- 
mation of my many friends the 
following. In reply to the re- 
marks of the Writer iu his ref- 
erence to one restaurant keeper 
on third ave, meaning myself, 
and my not contributing to the 
Stampede Fund, I believe the 
writer is the Gentleman’ who 
was charging those who came 
from afar something like $6.00 
a night to sleep on Ins floor of 
straw bunks, 

I was not in my ear with 
cheap ginks as stated outside 
the grounds but give some of 
boys a side over to the grounds 
and stopped outside the gates, 
and us my friends [not cheap 
ones some of the best farmers 
in the country] did not want to 
pay $1.50 just to look on, Know- 


ing it was not the town but the 
hotel that this great affair was 
staged for, and who of the mer- 
chants to day will say that 
they are proud of the Staim- 
pede, and all will tell you that 
this was stayed for the Hotel 
and Hotel 1 trests alone, 


And those that got stung are 
sore becnuse they were alone 
and could not rope in others, 
If I want a drink I was always 
willing to pay for it, but 
td make a present of $7,000.00 
to the Hotel I was not willing 
to be a party to. 


I stayed at the road a few 
yards trom the gates just a few 
minutes and at that time I had 
no time to loose on stampede 
show and I went back to the 
Restaurant and shortly after I 
‘got back I waé called on to go! 
down to the south ferry and 
bring some ladies back and this 
[ did not charging those people 
onything for my trouble and 


Acadia No. 241, was held in the|aud also found lodging for the 


Acadia Valley Hall on Wednes- 
day, the 7th day of June, with 
all members of Council present, 


The Reeve and Seeretary were 
empowered to purchase at the 
best prices obtainable, taking 
into consideration the haulage, 
culvert material for each divi-| 
sion ot the Municipality, as 
ordered by the Couneillors re-| 
presenting such Divisions. 


Each Division was limited to 
a $300 cash outlay for roadwork, 
which includes material, fore- 
man's wages, and all labour 
other than the working cut of 
taxes. 


Weed Inspector Barber was| days without inconveniencing 
yiven the option of attending | the public. 


the Govt. Weed Convention at 

Claresholm at the rey. salary, 
The tollowing were paid: 

Western Mun. 
ery, 19,00. 

William Denton, 
388.93, 

Alsusk News, advt. 3.60, 

D, M. Graham, salary, 66,90, 
The rates on the assessment 

in the different school districts 

were set as follows: 
Bonnie Briar 3 2-3 mills, 
Hopewell 5 4-5 ut) 
Glevannah 4 3-5 


commission, 


Carlyle 5 1-4 i 
Graindale 3 2-3 “ 
Acadia 2 3-5 “ 
Superba 4 2-3 “s 
Edendale 4 1-8 tt 
Bryant 3 1-2 i 


Lonely Trail34-5  * 

The question of rural tele- 
phones was brought up. The 
Secretary was instructed to 
write to the Dept. of Railways 
and Telephones in this regard, 
also to the secretaries of the 
Boards of Trade of Empress 
and Oyen, asking their co-oper- 
ation alony this line, 

Council then adjourned to 
meet on Saturday, the 8th day 
of July, at 10.30 a.m, 

D. M. Graham. see.-treas. 


}and got them that was about 
| Four o'clock in the afternoon, 


jam always 


News, station-|,, 


ladies, The gentlemen I could 
not do anything for and they 
stayed in the car all night. 
These people had stayed at the 
ferry from Eleven o'clock in 
the morning until 1 came down 


As far as boosting Empress | 
on the spot all other 
doings I have donated and also 
helped all I could to bring a 
crowd to our town, If we feel 
like boosting for EMPRESS let 
us do itin the Wright way We 
can give the people one real 
good Day of sport, bus we can- 
not give them two or three 


With kindest regards to the 
write of the serap of paper re 
ferred to I bey to. remain 
always EMPRESS | first 
last and always But let the 
Hotel take care of themselves. 


P. B. OSTRUM 
Tell Us The News 

It anything happens at your 
house, tell us, 

It you have a friend visiting 
you, tell us, 

If you or any of yeur family 
are going away on a visit, a 
vacation or any kind of a trip, 
tell us. 

It any of your folks are ill, 
tell us. 

When they get well again, 
tell us, 

If you hear of a birth, tell us, 

If you hear of a death, tell 


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18, 

If you hear of a new family 
moving to town tell us, 

With your help we can pub- 
lish a good newspaper. With- 
out your help—well, we are 
only human and we can be in 
but one place at once, 

Tell us on phone 85 and teil 
us—we will tell the pubhie, 


Competitive Recruiting 
May Be Abandoned 


Military men state that it is 
the intention of headquarters 
to make use ofthe order of last 
spring by which recently au- 
thorised infantry units will be 
drafted into other battalions if 
they did not reach a strength 
of°° J men when it wus time 
for them to go into camp for 
summer training. It has been 
pointed out that the competi- 
tive system of obtaining re- 
cruits has not had the effect it 
had in the early spring. The 
most successful method will be 
to bring as many battalions up 
to strength as possible immedi- 
ately that they may have bat- 
talion training at the eamps. 
Unless this is done the training 
of many units will not be com- 
plete when the summer camps 
break up. 


LOCALS 
Frank Tyler 
Lake, Sask., on Wednesday, 
He will brother in 
the management of his theatre, 
the Grand, while there. 


left for Gull} 


assist’ his 


Mrs, Williams, of Gananoque, 
Ont. and son Gilbert, of Shap- 
low, Ont. are visiting Mr. and 
Mrs. M. A. Belfie. Mrs, Wil- 


‘liams is Mr. Belfie’s sister. 


Misses Amelia and Alexina 
McKenzie are the guests of 
their sister, Mrs. ¥. H. Pearce. 
Vhey arrived in Empress last 
week, after a long journey by/}' 
sea and rail trom Dublin,’ Ire- 
land. 


The key to beauty'’s heart— 
“A box of Liggett’s Chocolates” 
“Your sweetheart’s choice’— 
Sold exclusively by all Rexall 
Drug Stores, 


Several of our citizens held 
whut they described as a most 
enjoyable picnic at the old ferry 
landing, on Friday last, on the 
South Saskatchewan River. 
Those comprising the party 
were: Mrs, York, sen., Mr. and 
Mrs. Matt. York, Mr. and Mrs, 
Ross, Mr. and Mrs) Wm. Boyd 
und family, Misses Perdita 
York and Trail, Mrs, T. R. 
Brewer and Messrs Weir and 
Campbell, 


Rurul Municipality of Deer 
Fovks, No. 232 


Notice of location of Pound and | 

Poundkeepers for the Year 1916} 

Pound located on S.W. 4, See. 
27, 19, 29, w 3. Chris Schalahtt, | 
poundkeeper. 

Pound located on N,W. $ sec. | 
16, 19, 28, w 3rd. John Vool- 
man, poundkeeper, 

Pound located on N.E, 3, See. 7, 
20 28, w 8rd. Phillip Wittig, 
poundkeeper, 


Tenders for School Hanae 


Sealed Tenders will be re- 
ceived by the Board of ‘Trustees | 
School District No, 3051, Aciee, 
at the office of the Secretary- | 
Treasurer, wp to July 22, for 
the erection of a frame school} 
building, Plans and Specifica- | 
tions may be obtained from the 
Secretary - ‘Treasurer on pny 
ment of a deposit of — $5,00,! 
which will be returned on re- | 
ceipt of a bona fide tender with | 
plans and specification, The | 
lowest or any tender will not 
necessarily be accepted, 

JOHN POUND, 
Secretary-Treasurer 
Atlee, July 4th, 1916, 


FOR SALE 


ago. 


| farmers claiming damage ? Let 


| kept on Stampeding ever since 
-'the opening of the 
}celebration, 


Wheat Quta| 
i'l, Chesney....... 900...... 1125 | 
| Jack Packover ...—..... 1500 | 
John Boes........—....- 300 


“lat 5e, per 


BINDLOSS 
Mrs. Faleoner’s wheat has 


started to head out and ‘it 
promises a good yield. 


It is rumored that the Alber- 
ta Pacific Grain Co., Limited, 
will build coal sheds at’ this 
place. 


Come on with your feed and 
livery barn! Crops are good 
so business will be good. You 


PANCRAS PARS 


Crops are doing well and 
in some fields they are headed 
out. 


Messrs. T. Glen and I. Inkster 
were business visitors at Cal- 
gary during fair week, 


Messrs, C. Lunde and O. Plax- 
ton were visitors to Banff. Both 
had their annual bath, and now 
have colds as a result ot shed- 


can't make a mistake. 


Mr. Reinnardt is doing a lot 
of breaking on his homestead ; 
he is certainly putting the boots 
to his. horses. 


Mr. Tom Chesney has his new 
home nearly completed. It 
will be one of the finest houses 
in the country. It contains 8 
rooms and has a concrete cellar 
aud basement. It is 20x28 and 
20 feet high. 


Mr. Leshe Falconer is putting 
up a new fence on the west 
side of SW quarter of 17: if 
your eyesight is lacking, go to 
the optician who will be in 
Empress during the month. 


Miss Meenah arrived last 
Thursday evening at Bindloss. 
She is the guest of Mrs. Fal- 
coner during her visit. 


Mr. Jim Murdoch has just 
tinished loading a car of wheat. 
Scooping wheat ‘is no snap 
while the weather is so hot 
Jim says. 


etare sgavtitige “qnieeae. 
local rain showers. Wonder 
where all the rain comes from ? 


Some farmers have potatoes 
in blossom since two weeks 
The gardens are looking 
very good in general, 


Mr. Leslie Falconer is the 
agent for the McCormick and 
Deering implements. 


Remember July 14th, the day | 
of the big doings at Social} 
Plains. Be sure and come or 


you will miss a glorious time. 


Mr. Jack Barnes was quite 
surprised, when, returning from 
the Stampede, he saw his house | 
occupied by his parents. 


From what we hear-—has 
hail interfered with the growth 
and yield of the cropsin the 
lust bad storm, and are several 


us hope that Foster's prediction | 
won't come true, as crops are 
| too good to be spoiled. [Dont 
lworry, Foster predicted “no 
hail in western Canada this | 
season,” two weeks ago,—Ed. | 


Mr Jack Barnes has just re- 
turned from a weeks vacation 
at the Calgary Fair, Jack has 


impress | 


+ 

Partial statistics of the dam- | 
age done to crops, main'y by 
prange cattle, last year 1915: | 


Bus. Grain Lost} 


John Jones(Demorest place) 800 


Vjeldberg ........——..... 100 
isam Fee......... —..... 100 
| Mrs. Demorest ...——..... 200 | 

200 4125 


Sam Fee lost 4000 oat bundles 
and John Boes 200 oat bundles, 
bundle, occasioned 


J again 


jlaw Mr. 


ding their collection. 


The ferry at Pancras 1s now 
operating. Mr. Hetfernun is‘ 
bringing over grain. He re- 
ports there are 30,000 bushels 
which will be brought to Pan- 
eras over the ferry, 


‘he Co-operative tarmers sold. 
a carload of coul here last Lica 


There were five membef% pre- 
sent ut our last U.F.A. meéting. 
That's poor attendance as there 
1s nearly two hundred members 


The pit in the elevator was 


‘| flooded after the big storm last 


Monday. The manager soon 
had the pit cleaned out, and is 
now doing bus ess again. 


The Pancras Store aud Yard 
ure installing a weighing plat- 
form. This company is certain- 
yrowing with the times. 


Mr. Piaxton sold a new bind- 
er this week. 


Mr. Edgington took home his 
new buggy last Saturday. It 
looks good. 


r. Ed. Hart joined the Royal 
and goes to Victoria 
B. C. for training. | It.is not 
dry there yet, Ed. y 


Mr. Geo, Gilham has signed 
up at Moose Jaw. He is home 
on a holiday for two weeks. 


Mr. Charles Webster is on 
his way home again. “The doc- 
tor thought he was too old for 
his age, so he didn't get signed 
on for active service,” 


Private Lakey is expected 
home this week from the front, 
suffering from shell shock, 


BUSINESS LOCALS 


Limestone phosphate for sale 
at Shepherd and McEachern’s, 


You take no risks of injuring 
your eyes if you consult Dr. M. 
Mecklenburg, the old reliable, ex- 
perienced graduate and exclusive 
eyesight expert, who will again be 


}at Brown’s Drug Store July 28-31. 


the well- 
highly 
commended optician, is coming 

to Brown’s Drug Store on 
28-29-31. 


Dr. M 
i} known, 


Mecklenburg, 
experienced — and 


July 


Gas the Gophers — “ Currie 
Gopher Killer” exterminates by 
asphyxiation, Sold by Shep- 
herd & McEachern, 


was a fence round Sam Fee's 


| place. 


Through there being no herd 
KXunst lost, Jast fall, 
more than 1200 head of cabbage, 
besides a quantity of beets, 
carrots ete, 


These statistics are limited to 
only a few farmers along the 
Govt. Reserve. We think it 18 
nearly time that something 


jis done to stop this robbing of 


the furmers of this district, 


‘The damage totalled to about 
$1800, and besides, a lou of time 
was lost by the farmers in 


One Jersey ‘Bull and ‘a number of Cows. 
Apply, L. Readel, Bmpress, Alberta. 


by range horses, although there 


watching their crops, 


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LHE BAPKESS, 


EMPRESS 


Regulate Kidneys 
; AND 


Relieve Constipation 


Gin Pills are acknowledged to have the 
largest sale of any proprietary medicine in 
Canada—an achievement solely due to their 
remarkable virtue as a Kidney and Bladder 
remedy. 

But users of Gin Pills have discovered that 
this invaluable remedy a/so acts as a mild 
rathartic, The evidence of hundreds of letters 
we have received establishes the very logical 
fact that in compounding a medicine to heal 
and tune up the Kidneys and Bladder certain 
of the ingredients have a stimulating effect 
upon the other organs, especially the rowels, 

It is important to know, in the case of con- 
stipated patients, that Gin Pills do not act 
harshly on the bowels; there is no griping. 
but a gradual and gentle restoration of the 
function. Try Gin Pills for constipation. In 
thus relieving the bowels, you safeguard your- 
self agaiust possible Kidney trouble, 

Cin Pills are 50c. a box, or 6 boxes for $2.50 
at your dealer's, Atrial treatment will be 
sent upon request, to 16 


National Drug & Chemical Co. 
of Canada, Limited, Toronto. 


fr, QUEEN'S 


& : 

ee ae UNIVERSITY 

Sa a ~ KINGSTON 
ONTARIO 


ARTS EDUCATION 
APPLIED SCIENCE 
Including Mining, Chemical, Civil, Mech- 
‘anieal and Hlectrical Engineering. 
MEDICINE 

During the War there will be continuous 
sessions in Medicine. 

HOME STUDY 

The Arts Course may be taken by corre- 
spondence, but students desiring to gradu- 
ate must attend one session, 
SUMMERSCHOOL Geo. Y. CHOWN 
JULY AND AUGUST REGISTRAR 


quickly relieved by Murine 

yes Eye Remedy. No Sinarting, 

just Eye Comfort. At 

Your Druggist’s 50c per Bottle. Murine Eye 
balvein Tubes 25c. For Book of theEyeFreeask 
Druggists o. Murine Fye 2emedy Ca., Chicago 


Enviable Position 
Of Merchants’ Bank 


Annual Report Shows That This Bank 
is Constantly Being Placed on a 
Stronger Financial Basis 


The Merchants Bank report for 
twelve months ending April 29, 1916, 
shows a very material strengthening 
of its position. While improving its 
already very considerable percentage 
of quick assets, the Bank naturally 
had to suffer a decrease of profits. 
These however have been better than 
might have been supposed and were 
sufficient to pay the regular dividends 


even after liberal contributions to 
Patriotic and Red Cross Funds, and 
the payment of almost Sixty Fight 


thousand Dollars as War Tax on Cir- 
culation, 

lucluding the balance brought for- 
ward from last year of two hundred 
and forty-five thousand dollars, the 
Net Profits after full provision for all 
charges, ete., amounted to almost 
twelve hundred thousand dollars. 

While the Shareholders will feel 
specially gratified at this, the public 
at large will rejoice especially at the 
very large percentuge of the quick 
assets, which amount to $40,960,486, 
being in excess of 50 per cent of the 
Bank’s total liabilities to the public. 
Of this amount no less than sixteen 
mnillions are in coin, Dominion notes 
and other cash equivalents. 

As an indication of improved condi- 
tions, one notes an expansion of about 
one million and a half in Loans and 
discounts—in Canada, and a similar 
amount in Call Loans, while notes 
in circulation have increased by about 
twelve hundred thousand dollars. De- 
posits are at high water mark stand- 
ing at 72 millions, almost 10 millions 
more than in 1915. 

It is of interest to note that 
fifty million mark in deposits was 
passed by this Bank only in 1910— 
so that in the six years an improve- 
ment in this head of almost 50 per 
cent. is noted. 

The report is another proof that 
War conditions are not without their 
compensations as now that the first 
shock is over conditions are notably 
better than previous to Aug. 4th, 1914. 


the 


| 


Miller’s Worm Powders were devised 
to promptly relieve children who suf- 
fer from the ravages of worms. It is 
a simple preparation warranted to! 
destroy stomachic and _— intestinal 
worms without shock or injury to the 
most sensitive system. They act thor- 
oughly and painlessly, and though in 
some cases they may cause vomiting, 
that is an indication of their power- 
ful action and not of any nauseating 
property. 


Comforting 
“T like church.” “Why?” ‘Well, 
it's comforting to see one man keep 
50 many women quiet an hour.” 


A camel's hind legs will reach its 


head, round its chest or on to its 

hump. 

acs — es 
WwW. N. U. W112 


First Aid Work 
Valuable Work Being Carried on by 
the C. P. R. Centre 

“A most successful year,, notwith- 


standing the general depression.”’ This 
is the pleasing statement contained in 


the sixth annual report of the Cana- |; 


dian Pacific Railway Centre of the 
St. John Ambulance Association. For 
the twelve months, ending September 
30, 1915, no less than 1,816 passed 
qualifying examinations out of a total 
of 2,564 who presented themselves for 
instruction at the classes 

In all the departments of the C. P. 
R. Centre of the Association which 
spreads over the country, a greater 
zeal than ever was manifested for 
work, and the support of the superin- 
tending officials of the C. P. R. is in 
no small way responsible for a good 
deal of the advancement made. Wives 
and daughters of C. P. R. employees 
have taken advantage of the free 
course of training offered, and now 
no less than 825 ladies have taken out 
the certificate of qualification from 
the Association. 

Under the auspices of the C. P. R. 
Centre instruction was given to the 
Borden Battery and Ammunition Col- 
umn before leaving Montreal for the 
front. Afterwards the certifigates of 
merit were presented to the officers 
and men by His Royal Highness the 
Duke of Connaught. 

An important feature of the work of 
the C. P. R. Centre was the bringing 
of a large number of lady clerks of 
the C. P. R. in touch with the Red 
Cross Society, an organization to 
which they proved a valuable asset. 

Three men were saved from drown- 
ing at Winnipeg by W. T. Davies, C. 
P. R. ambulance instructor, and Wil- 
liam Newcombe, C. P. R. constable. 
Sir Donald Cameron presented the 
medal of the Royal Canadian Humane 
Society to each in recognition of their 
bravery. 

Particulars were cbtainable of 3,780 
cases where first aid had been admin- 
istered by members of the C. P. R. 
Ceitre. The cases were thus divided: 
Atlantic Centre, 9; Eastern Division, 
130; Ontario Division, 136; western 
lines, 8,440. 

Concluding the report the C. P. R. 


| Centre pays a glowing tribute to the 
late Lieutenant-Colonel Lacy R. John- 


son, who had been chairman of the 
Centre under review and also of the 
whole Association. During his time as 
chairman nearly 7,000 employees of 
the C. P. R. passed the qualifying ex- 
aminations, and in this way made 
themselves better citizens of the Do- 
minion, 


Keep Minard’s Liniment In the 
house. 


Dutch Cattle For Starving Germans 

Amidst the many statements that 
are published with regard to Ger- 
many’s resources, some facts have 
been collated that show the measures 
now being adopted to meet an admit- 
ted shortage of foodstuffs 

The exportation of cattle from Hol- 
land, that stopped some time ago, has 
been resumed, and in two days 7,000 
cattle were shipped into Germany from 
Rotterdam. Most of the cattle were for 
breeding. An official statement was 
issued from Berlin intended to allay 
the anxiety felt in some quarters as 
to the next harvest. The report was, 
naturally, assuring, and stated that 
the prospects of the crops in Belgium, 
Courland, and other parts of occupied 
territory were excellent, from which 
it is inferred that the intention of 
making the needs of the civilian sub- 
servient to the needs of the army will 
be carried out rigidly, and Belgium 
will be made to shiit for herself. 


No other navy in the world owes 
so much to one man as the German 
navy owes to Tirpitz. 

3ut what civilization will never 
forgive is that he is responsible 
for the policy of submarine massacre, 
and that at his instance atrocities 
like the torpedoing of the Lusitania 
were committed. ,From that brand of 
infamy his reputation, however great 
in other respects, can never be cleared, 
—New York World. 


Kathryn—I noticed you're not doing 
your complexion as carefully as you 
used to. 

Kitty—it isn’t necessary any more, 
My present fiance is color blind.— 
New York Globe. 


A Sensible 
Thing To Do 


When the drug, caffeine—the 
active principle in tea and coffee 
—shows in headache, nervous- 
ness, insomnia, biliousness, 
jumpy heart, and so on, the 
sensible thing to do is to quit 
both tea and coffee. 


It’s easy, having at hand the 
delicious pure food-drink 


Instant 


Postum 


It is made from wheat roasted 
with a bit of wholesome molasses 
and is free from any harmful 
substance, 


Thousands who prefer to pro- 
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The Meaning of Economy 
The root fact is that there are not 
enough things to go round for carry- 
ing on this war and at the same time 
for living at home is if we were at 


peace. One or other must be sacri- 
ficed, and if we are to win the war 
it is the standard of living at home 
that must yield. Economy does not 
mean hoarding money; it means re- 
leasing capital, and with it labor, from 
satisfying private and domestic needs, 
in order to apply them to the produc- 
tion of things and the maintenance of 
services required by the war. All ex- 
penditure on unnecessary things di- 
verts capital and labor from that su- 
preme object. Surely there is no dif- 
ficulty in understanding that.—London 
Times. 


Just One More 
Direct Message 


NEW BRUNSWICK WOMAN SAYS 
USE DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS 


The West's Coal Resources 


Enough to Supply the World for a 
yen Couple of Centuries 


i “According to estimates recently pub- 
lished in The ry News, there is 


| enough soft coalsin the four western 


provinces of Canada to supply the 
world for a céuple of centuries. The 
mines of Saskatchewan, Alberta and 
British Columbia have scarcely been 
tapped as yet, and have produced a 
total in one year of around 6,000,000 
tons, with a value of over $25,000,000. 
The Alberta and Saskatchewan voal- 
fields—which are having a big devel- 
opment—it is said, can supply the 
demand of the prairie provinces for 
centuries to come. The coal is of a 
very good grade and is equally ser- 
viceable for steam purposes and house- 
hold heating. Steps have also been 
taken to generate cheap electrical 
power by establishing power plants 
at the mouths of good mines. Pro- 
motion of this kind has been more or 
less delayed on account of the finan- 
cial situation caused by the European 
war; but there is no doubt that in the 
future the power question of the 
prairie provinces will be largely set- 
tled by the inexhaustible supply of 
coal available in these provinces, The 
Dominion Geological Survey has esti- 
mated that the coal beds of these 
rovinces with Eastern British Colum- 
ia, contain a total of 148,490,000,000 
Li covering an area of 22,506 square 
niles. 


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MRS. A. LIVINGSTONE 
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I was cured of a severe attack of 
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Mrs. Patrick Williams Tells How Her] MENT. 


Headache and Weakness Vanished 
When She Used the Great Canadian 
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St. Sosime, Kent Co., N. B. (Spe- 
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public the great relief from headache 
and weakness I found in Dodd’s Kid- 
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This is the message Mrs. Patrick 
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fering women all over Canada. Like 
many other women she dislikes talk- 
ing about her troubles, but she feels 
she would not be doing right to let 
others suffer when she had learned 
from her own experience how great is 
the relief and how easy is the cure to 
be found in Dodd’s Kidney Pills. 

Nine-tenths of the weakness and suf- 
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seeds of disease, are carried to all 
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A Generous Indian Prince 


Although the State of Kutch in In- 
dia is classed among the poorest, the 
ruling Rao is without a rival in his 
devotion to the British Throne and 
to the cause of the allies. As soon 
as war broke out he rushed to the 
Viceroy and said that his kingdom 
was at the service of the Empire, and 
he has lived up to that profession. 

He has sustained a regiment at the 
front, which has cost him 45,000 
rupees per month. He has been a 
notable contributor to many of the 
Patriotic Funds, in addition to con- 
tributing from five to six lakks of 
rupeees to the general war fund. 


Clean Stomach, Clear Mind.—The 
stomach is the workshop of the vital 
functions and when it gets out of 
order the whole system clogs in sym- 
pathy. The spirits flag, the mind 
droops and work becomes impossible. 
The first care should be to restore 
healthful action of the stomach and 
the best preparation for that purpose 
is Parmelee’s Vegetable Pills. General 
use for years has won them a leading 
place in medicine. A trial will attest 
their value. 


“How does the breakfast suit you, 
John?’ inquired the young bride 
anxiously. 

“It’s just right, dearest,’’ said her 
husband. “It may be plebeian, but 
I'm awfully fond ot calves’ liver for 
breakfast.” 

“So am I, dear,” said the wife. ‘Oh, 
John, don’t you think it would pay 
us to keep a calf? Then we could 
have liver every morning for break- 
fust.”’ 


$100 Reward, $100 


The readers of this paper will be pleased to 
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease 
science has been able to cure in all its stages, and 
thatis catarrh, Catarrh being greatly influenc- 
ed by constitutional conditions requires constitu. 
tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure ts taken 
ne Blood on the Mucous 


internally and acts thru 
hereby destroying the 


Surfaces of the System 


| foundation of the disease, giving the patient 


strength by building up the constitution and 
assisting nature in doing its work. The pro- 
prietors have so much faith in the curative 
powers of Hall's Catarrh Cure that they offer 
One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to 
cure, Seud for list of testimonials, 

Address; F. J. CHENKY & CU.,, Toledo, Ohio. 
Seld by all druggists, 75c, 


Farmers are unquestionably enter- 
ing upon a very momentous year, 
There are difficulties ahead even 
greater than the difficulties now ex. 
perienced, and it will need all the 
farmer's native shrewdness to make 
the most of his land with labor and 
transport deficiencies.—English Ex. 
change. 


All mothers can put away anxiety 
regarding their suffering children 
when they have Mother Graves’ Worm 
Exterminator to give relief. Its effects 
are sure and lasting. 

The Bishop of London says the war 
has finished for all time the old char- 
acter of the London publie house. In 


any case, the late hours will never be 
re-established. 


Minard's Liniment Lumberman’s 


Friend. 


“Don’t you think a girl should marry 
an economical man?" asked Madge, 

“Oh, I suppose so,” answered Dolly, 
“but I tell you it’s awful being en- 
gaged to one” 


Mahone Bay. JOHN MADER. 
1 was cured of a severely sprained 
leg by MINARD’S LINIMENT. 
JOSHUA A. WYNACHT. 
Bridgewater. 


Poverty Amid Plenty 
An English traveller writes: The 
hotels in Russia are greatly over- 
crowded by refugees from Poland and 
the other war zones, and the wise 


traveller is he who engages rooms at | 


least a week beforehand, and, if pos- 
sible, through friends. In Petrograd 
it is apparent that the supply of food 
as well as of fuel is irregular, and in 
many cases insufficient. This is most- 
ly due to the lack of railways as there 
is plenty of food in this enormous 
country, but the difficulties in the way 
of transporting it from the often re- 
mote places seem to be almost insur- 
mountable. 


Said one of our leading merchants 
recently, after reading the war news: 
“7 see Germany it to have a_ food 
dictator. I’ve been married to one 
for some years.” 


,guish between the imports which are 


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Russia’s Forests 


Cecil on the Blockade | 


Difficulties and Triumphs of Navalism 
Are Frankly Discussed 


Interviewed by a Paris newspaper, 
Lord Robert Cecil, “Blockade Minis- 


First Place in Extent ef 


Timber Resources 


| Occupies 


occupies first place 
world in 


Russia now 
among the nations of the 
the extent of its timber resources, the 


ter,” said: ‘It is the intention of the : ‘ 
allies to destroy Germany’s commerce | value and quality cf two-thirds _ of 
and cut off her food supplies from | which are practically unknown. The 


total area of the Empire is about one 
seventh of the land surface of the 
globe, and 39 per cent. of it is under 
forests. Those in European Russia 
cover an area of 474,000,000 acres; in 
Finland, 50,000,000 acres; in Poland, 
, 6,700,000 acres; and in the Caucasus, 
18,600,000 acres—a total of 549,800,000 
| acres exclusive of Siberia. 
In the Ural Provinces forests coves 
| 70 per cent of the area, in the northern 
| provinces 68 per cent., and in the four 
E [ 5 lake provinces 57 per cent. It is esti- 
intended for consumption in the neut-| mated that in Western Siberia alone 
ral country and those which by devi-| there are 465,000,000 acres of virgin 
ous ways are smuggled into the ene-/ forests, and Eastern Siberia, while 
my's country. Whether we adopt | not so richly endowed, has sufficient 
what is known as a regular blockade | timber to supply the world’s demand 
or continue to strengthen the meas! for years to come 
ures which we have already taken,| ,~  .. a 
this difficulty remains the same. The principle timber lands of East 
“You will probably agree that while] ¢™ Siberia are in the valleys of the 
we are justified in destroying the com- Amur River system, which cover an 


abroad. In my opinion we have al- 
ready accomplished a great deal in 
this direction. We have absolutely 
paralyzed the German export trade, 
German credit abroad is rapidly sink- 
ing and her imports are decreasing. 
“As you know, Germany is forced to 
rely upon neutral neighboring coun- 
tries for her food supplies from abroad 
at a time when she cannot possibly 
produce enough food at home. The 
great difficulty we meet is to distin- 


|merce of Germany, it is equally true|®rea of about 2,000,000 square miles. 


Of this area, only about 400,000 miles 


that we must respect the rights of all] ‘ ; ; 7 J 
is considered available for timbering 


neutral countries, if we do not want : P 
to sink perilously near to the level| but according to local calculations, 
of Germany in the eyes of the civilized | allowing forty-five merchantable trees 
world. Without losing sight of the|to the acre this would give some 11,- 
fact that we are fighting for our na-| 520,000,000 trees. As the time required 
tional existence, we also’ remember | these trees to mature is placed at 100 
that we are also fighting for the ex-| years, 113,200,000 trees could be cut 
istence of civilization, and we may,| per annum without diminishing the 
while exercising our rights as bellig-| forests, with proper reforestation 
erents, very, well apply the principles| methods. ‘The Russian forestry de 
of internatfonal law in the fashion| partment places the total timber land 
rendered necessary by modern condi-| in Siberia at 810,000,000 acres, of which 
tions to ensure the efficiency of the| two-thirds can be successfully placed 
measures we have taken.” on the market. 


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~~ 


THE GLORIOUS PART PL 


GREAT BRITAIN IN WORLD WAR 


ALL RESOURCES OF EMPIRE THROWN INTO FIGHT 


Famous American War Correspondent Writes of Fighting Quality 
Of British Troops, and Pays a Tribute to Organization 
And Work of War Department 


(By Frederick Palmer in Collier's) 


Of course there are some people 
who think that anybody who says 4 
good word for the English must be 
what is known as an Anglo-maniac 
who uses broad a's, speaks of ‘“‘dear 
old Lunnun” as they do on the vau- 
deville stage, and holds his breath in 
awe at the mention of a duke. I 
come of blood which has fought the 
British twice and would again for the 
right cause. My ideas of how the 
British fight; and the part they have 
played in this war were formed not 
in the company of dukes or in dear 
old Lunnun from the gossip of the 
Strand, but at the British front. I 
think that the British are entitled to 
fair play and to be judged by what 
they have done rather than by the 
way they talk. 

Then in two months the British 
had lost more killed and wounded 
than their original force; in six 
months, more than the total of their 
standing army. They had lacked 
machine guns and guns of heavy cal- 
ibre; so had the French. The Eng- 
lish had not only to train men who 
had never shouldered a rifle, but to 
equip them. Russia and France, too, 
lacked sufficient uniforms at the out- 
set of the war for all the soldiers 
they had. From the Belgian and Ser- 
bian and the Russian army came the 
call to manufacturing England for 
arms and uniforms. England was the 
mint, the foundry, the workshop which 
must be a bottomless source of supply 
—while every demand of Jellicoe’s had 
to be met. She plodded on sturdily, 
if not brilliantly, criticizing no one 
but herself. 

Though the British had supposed 
that their part was to command the 
dea, three million volunteered to 
cross the Channel or go farther over- 
seas and fight. This is a different 
thing from volunteering to fight in 

our own country against an invader. 
Mind, these. three million did not 
have to be ordered to fight. They went 
of their. own free will, carpenters, 
farmers, costermongers, doctors, law- 
yers, millionaires and laborers, with 


every able bodied man of Oxford and | 
Cambridge and other universities and | 


reat public schools offering himself. 
flistory has afforded nothing finer 
than this outpouring, and never was 
there an effort more depreciated by 
those who made it. 

For the lack of guns the British in 
France had to fight with flesh and 
blood against superior  artillery— 
flesh and blood against machine kill- 
ing. France needed help; England 

ave all she had to give—the lives of 

er men. 

One reason they had to hold a short 
line was for many months they had 
to do it with flesh and blood, with- 
out adequate guns or adequate shells 
for the guns, though they have the 
shells now and are getting the guns. 
Another reason was that they held the 
famous Ypres salient, one of the blood- 
fest parts of the line. 

If you don't think so, ask any Ger- 
man who has fought there. Again, 
after this war, don’t make the mis- 
take of depreciating the British sol- 
dier to a German soldier. The high- 
est praise you can hear for the Brit- 
ish army is from Germans. 

The English talk of ‘‘muddling, 
but it seems to me that they do very 
much less muddling than they adver- 
tise. The error so highly criticized 
at Loos was made by the German staff 
only a few dnzs later. In fact, the 
Germans have been guilty 0% it sev- 
eral times, but they say nothing and 
gc on. Terlin is silent while tongues 
wag in London. 


Germany a Pack of Cards 
Tickets Have to be Produced to Ob- 
tain the Necessaries of Life 


The development of organization for 
the maintenance of the Germans in 
food, clothing, and drink is assuming 
interesting and humorous proportions. 
In Dusseldorf, for instance, a house- 
wife has to range her ‘‘store cards on 
her cabinet shelf with great care. 

When her man returns from _ his 
day’s work—presuming that he is not 
at the front—she hus to take down 
the yellow card. That stands for 
beer, and no worthy German would 
think of taking his evening meal 
without a schooner of laager. When 
sugar runs out, a white card entitles 
her to a legally-fixed supply from the 
grocer, which means a trip for that 
alone very often, sugar being doled 
out very sparingly. A brown ticket 
procures bread, or to be correct, a 
mixture of baked rye, starch, - potato 
hash, and kindred ingredients. Red 
tickets stand for petrol. The latest 
ticket, however, has exasperated the 
German “frau” to breaking point, in 
fact one brave woman said, when the 

olice promulgated the new order that 
fs future clothing wouid only be doled 
out on the production of a legal dos- 
sier, very angrily, “This country will 
soon be a pack of cards.”’ it is not for 
us to say what Germany will be in 
the future, but there is enough evi- 
dence to suggest that her pretensions 
at least look like falling to pieces 
after the fashion of the proverbial 
house of cards 


Wireless Danger Signals for Trains 


0 


’ 


A curious invention is being shown; 


at the 1916 exhibition of the National 
Railway Appliance Association in Chi- 
cago for controlling trains by wireless. 
Danger signals are flashed to the 
train by a touch on a key. The wire- 
less, worked in connection with an 
automatic speed control, applies the 
air b akes automaticaJs whether the 
engineer sees the signal or not, and 
a fer the speed to the desired maxi- 
mum, 


The word “clove’’ is from the Latin 
“clavus,” meaning a nail, cloves being 
like nails in appearance. 


Losses of Pigs 


Valuable Information on the 
and. Handling of Pigs 


A severe winter is usually followed 
by reports of heavy losses of young 
pigs. This Aa is no exception to the 
rule. Mr. W. F. Stevens, Provincial 
Live Stock Commissioner for Alberta, 
has visited a number of farms from 
which reports of this kind have come. 
Although he does not claim to have 
discovered the precise cause in every 
instance, he does not _ hesitate to 
classify the causes, in the majority 
of cases, under the following head- 
ings: 

Farrowed in February.—The losses 
among pigs farrowed in February are, 
as a rule, heavy. In seasons when 
the weather is as cold as it was dur- 
ing last February the losses are par- 
ticularly heavy. This fact alone would 
account for many deaths. 

Little Light and Less Ventilation 
in Pens.—Animals confined within 
poorly lighted and ill ventilated hous- 
ings cannot thrive, and young ani- 
mals cannot develop strength nor 
resist disease in such places. Pneu- 
monia doubtless caused most of the 
deaths among the early farrowed ani- 
mals that were thus cared for. 

Feeding the dam too heavily after 
was relatively cheaper than oats last 
winter, and many farmers yielded to 
the temptation to feed it to their 
brood sows. Barley develops fat but 
not bone and muscle. Bone and 
muscle, but not fat, are what the 
young animal requires in order to 
enable it to avoid danger and keep 
from being laid on and suffocated in 
the nest. 

Feeding the dam to heavily after 
farrowing.—The swine grower who 
likes to feed liberally is usually a 
heavy loser from “thumps.” Feeding 
the sow heavily on heating foods, par- 
ticularly barley, wheat, rye, or spelts, 
and keeping her confined in a pen is 
likely to result in ‘‘thumps” among 
the young pigs. Turn the sow out. 
feed a thin slop of ground oats, and 
provide succulent feed vr roots or 
green forage of some kind. 

Sows had frozen teats.—Some swine 
growers went to the opposite extreme. 
They fed their sows out of doors dur- 
ing the coldest of weather. In many 
cases they had to wade through snow 
drifts when going from the nesting 
place to the feeding ground. The 
result was that some of them froze 
their teats and were therefore unable 
to suckle their young, which died of 
starvation. 

Swine growers who have suffered 
losses of young pigs should write to 
the Department of Agriculture, Ed- 
monton, and ask for a copy of live 
stock pamphlet entitled ‘Preparing 
for the Pig Crop,” also pamphlet en- 
titled “The Suckling Period.” 


Care 


Less Acreage Sown 


The Dominion Government Estimate 
of Land in Wheat Less Than 
Last Year 


A bulletin issued by the census and 
statistics office gives the usual pre- 
liminary estimate of the areas sown 
to grain crops and the condition of 
these crops as reported by corres- 
pondents on May 31. The reports 
show that the spring this year is 
late, and that heavy rains throughout 
the Dominion have in many places 
made it difficult to work the land. 
In Eastern Canada seeding at the end 
of May was considerably behind hand. 

According to the preliminary esti- 
mates of correspondents, made in 
many instances before the completion 
of seeding, wheat in Canada this year 
will oseupy a total area of 11,491,600 
acres. This is 1,494,800 acres, or 11.5 
er cent., below the high record of 
ast year, when 12,986,200 acres were 
harvested, but 1,197,700 acres, or 11.6 
per cent., above the harvested area 
of 1914, which was 10,293,900 acres. 
The area to be harvested of fall wheat 
for 1916 is 1,042,200 acres, leaving the 
area estimated to be sown to spring 
wheat as 10,449,400 acres. In the three 
northwest provinces the area sown to 
wheat is estimated at 10,471,200 acres, 
as compared with 11,744,700 acres, the 
area of 1915, and with 9,335,400 acres. 
the harvested wheat area in the north- 
west provinces for 1914. In Manitoba 
the area sown to wheat for 1916 is 
placed at 2,904,400 acres, as compared 
with 3,342,900 acres last year; in Sas- 
katchewan it is 5,880,100 acres, as 
against 6,838,100 acres, and in Alberta 
1,677,700 acres, as against 1,563,71 
acres, 

It is estimated that the area de- 
voted to oats for 1916 is 10,499,500 
acres, as compared with 11,365,000 
acres in 1915. This is a diminuation 
of 865,500 acres, or 7.6 per cent., as 
compared with last year, but an in- 
crease of 438,000 acres or 4.3 per cent., 
as compared with 10,061,500 acres, the 
area harvested in 1914. The area sown 
to barley is estimated at 1,317,500 
acres, as against 1,509,350 acres a year 
ago, the areas sown to other grain 
crops being as follows: 

Rye, 109,000 acres against 112,300 
acres; peas, 139,200 acres against 196.- 
210 acres; mixed grains, 395,000 acres 
against 466,800 acres. The acreage 
under hay and clover is reported as 
7,963,000 as against 7,975,000 last year, 
an increase of 88,000 acres; and under 
alfalfa the acreage is 88,700 as against 
92,600 last year. 


A Gardener Peer 


Lord Redesdale, whose memoirs are 
arousing 8o much attention in Britain, 
{a one of the greatest living authori- 
ties on horticulture. He is responsible 
for the present design of the gardens 
at Buckingham Palace, which work 
he took up at the special request of 
King Edward 


AYED BY | 


THE 


Suffer Most Just 
Before the Battle 


Mixture of Fear, Doubt and Expect- 
ancy Proves Unnerving to Many 


The following interesting article, 
giving physchological study of a bat- 
tle, was written by a German school 
teacher, who since has been killed 
on the west front. The article, which 
appears in the German papers, has 
caused considerable comment: 

“To describe the sensations, the 
emotions and the innermost feelings 
of the soul of a soldier in battle is an 
unusually interesting but difficult 
task. While the battle is raging a 
soldier is beset and agitated by thous- 
ands of thoughts that flash like light- 
ning through his brain, but it is only 
during the remarkable calm that 
comes after a battle that he is enabled 
to analyze them. As I have partici- 
pated in thirty-six engagements and 
battles, both on the eastern and west- 
ern fronts, I have been in a position 
to make many observations and have 
made a study of the soul of the sol- 
dier. It is a great subject for the 
physchologist and one that opens & 
mine of valuable information. 

“The troops receive orders at night 
to prepare for a charge the next morn- 
ing. The first thought is, is this real? 
Somehow, it seems like a dream. It 
is the same thought that stirs the soul 
in any great event in life, be it one 
of joy or one of sorrow. It does not 
secm real, 

“However, when the soldier does 
realize that it is no nightmare, he be- 
gins to think of the likelihood of death 
claiming him in that battle. A strange, 
indescribable fear begins to agitate 
the soul. The awful thought pesters 
him that he will go to his death and 
leave home and loved ones and every- 
thing that is dear in a moment of 
time. He ponders over the subject of 
immortality and wonders if death 
comes whether it will mean eternal 
darkness and annihilation. 

“To one who is in the prime of life, 
who has everything to live for, hell 
itself cannot offer torture to equal the 
terrorizing doubts that assail the soul 
in those dreadful moments before a 
battle. 

“Then, too, the thoughts come that 
we have not made the most of life; 
that there is s0 much which we would 
still like to do; that if only given the 
opportunity how different we would 
shape our life in the future. 

“All night long the troops move to 
the front, and all night long we think 
of God and the uncertainty that lies 
directly before us. 

“Morning comes. It is a most beau- 
tiful morning; the sun shining warm 
and bright. The notes of a German 
song are wafted on the still air. It 
is a song of the Fatherland and all 
join in the chorus. It is then that 
we forget all our doubts and fears. 
A new life seems to be born within 
us. All fear has vanished and we are 
ready to go down to the gates of death 
unafraid. 

“And then the battle. The bullets 
began to whistle, In those first mo- 
ments every. soldier naturally looks 
for some sheltered place for protec- 
tion. Nevertheless, the sou] is remark- 
ably calm, Though comrades are fall- 
ing on all sides we never for a mo- 
ment think of being hit by a bullet 
ourselves. We keep on running, run- 
ning toward the enemy. All feeling, 
all thought, all emotion, all sensation 
is obliterated. In the crash and thun- 
der of artillery we go on, fearing noth- 
ing. Occasionally we hear a voice ut- 
tering a curse or a threat, due to hate 
against the enemy, born anew in the 
thick of battle. That feeling of hate 
becomes uppermost. We are seized 
with a frenzy of rage, and our one 
thought is to meet the enemy face to 
face and annihilate him. As this 
hate is mingled with a certain feeling 
of patriotism and love for the Father- 
land, the lust of battle is developed 
in such a manner as to quiet our 
nerves and forget all about danger and 
death. 

“The battle has been fought and 
won. The soul experiences an indes- 
cribable peace, but when we begin to 
see our broken ranks and make count 
of our fallen comrades painful sensa- 
tions follow. Then only do we realize 
what danger we so callously faced, 
and a wave of thoughtfulness warms 
our blood and body. 

“The feelings and _ sensations on 
emerging from a battle are like those 
of convalescence from a serious ill- 
ness. The tired soul longs for peace 
and rest, and the soldier falls into a 
deep, sound, dreamless sleep, in which 
all the fear and stress and storm of the 
time are forgotten.” 


What's in a Name 

Berlin is one of the thriving towns 
of the Province of Ontario, Canada, 
and a large proportion of its citizens 
are of German descent. The war fever 
seems to have affected the minds of 
the people of that Province and they 
purpose to call Berlin by some other 
name. Berlin seems to be loyal 
enough and the rest of the country 
should let it alone. If the entente 
allies should reach Berlin on the 
Spree and march down Unter den Lin- 
den every town and city in Canada 
would envy the possession of the name 
Berlin. All over Canada are towns 
and townships bearing names that 
commemorate British victories, such 
as Sweaburg, Alma, Blenheim, Water- 
loo, ete., not far from Berlin, Ontario. 
Berlin should hold onto its name un- 
til the end of the war. It might be 
popular then.—New York Commercial. 

The Expensive Married Man 

One of the most difficult points for 
the government is to balance the value 
of a married man recruit against his 
value as a taxpayer. Every married 
recruit means, in addition to his up- 
keep by the State, an allowance for 
his family and relief at government 
expense to meet his rent, insurance 
and other liabilities, and at the same 
time a direct diminution of the na- 
tional revenue by the amount of his 
income tax, apart from his other con- 
tributions to the labor and wealth of 
the country.—London Daily Mail. 


“Going to Smith's wedding?” asked 
his friend. 

“Not I,” returned the other. ‘He 
cut me out with that girl.” 

‘Well, you may get a chance to biff 
him in the iaw with an old shoe!’ 


EXPRESS, 


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EMPRESS 


Tribute to Late 
Earl Kitchener 


Is Praised for His Great Work as an 
Empire: Builder 
At a New York theatre the other 


day the film “Britain Prepared’ was 
being shown. The face of the late 
Earl Kitchener was flashed on the 
screen. The orchestra began the 
strains of ‘‘Nearer, My God, to Thee.” 
he audience rose, in utter silence, 
and stood while the verse was played. 
A tribute, such as that, completely 
spontaneous, by people of another 
nation is remarkable. It is evidence 
that his personality left a mark upon 
the world: 

It is noticeable, in all the American 
tributes paid to Kitchener, by Theo- 
dore Roosevelt, Gen. Leonard Wood 
former Ambassador Choate, and td 
others, that it was Kitchener’s wor 
in Empire-building that chiefly com- 
manded their admiration. Kitchener's 
share of the “white man’s burden” in 
‘gypt, Africa and India is the out- 
standing note in their tributes. 
Another notable tribute was paid 
Kitchener in the parliament of United 
South Africa, where the members 
stood in silence while Premier Botha. 
in a few, words expressing great admir- 
ation and respect for the inan who a 
few years ago was the leader of the 
British armies in the conquest of 
South Africa, moved the adjournment 
of the House. It will be remembered 
that immediately after peace was 
signed at Pretoria, Kitchener sent a 
message to the Boers expressing his 
admiration for their gallantry and 
bravery in the long war. 

The Chicago Daily News, in an ap- 
preciative article, on the day of his 
death, recalled an interview Kitch- 
ener gave while in Chicago some years 
ago. In this Kitchener expressed the 
view that the want of food and the 
necessity of importing it was the 
chief factor in making war. The na- 
tion which had not sufficient supplies 
of food of its own, he pointed out, 
was continually gazing with envious 
eyes upon the nations which had. As 
a lover of peace, he said, he had 
noticed with great pleasure the vast 
fields of grain in the middle west, and 
took equal pleasure from the fact that 
across the boundary, in Canada, there 
were possibilities of equally great 
production of foodstuffs. 


Roosevelt's tribute 1s worth quot- 
ing: 
“Six years ago I passed through 


the Soudan and was more deeply im- 
pressed than I can well express by 
the extraordinary benefits secured to 
the natives of the country by Lord 
Kitchener’s conquest and the admin- 
istration of himself and of his lieuten 
ant and successor, Gen. Wingate. 

“He rescued it from a condition of 
chronic slaughter and rapine, under 
which the population diminished by 
considerably more than half,.and of 
the younger children over nine-tenths 
died of disease or starvation. The 
result of the conquest was to establish 
absolute peace and justice under the 
orderly reign of law. 


“Industry flourished amazingly, 
slavery and the oppression of weaker 
tribes were completcly abolished; 


schools were established everywhere 
and the Soudan entered upon a career 
of peace, prosperity and justice, paisa 
it has never before known in its 
history.”"—Regina Province. 


The Australian Premier 

The indomitable Labor prime minis- 
ter of Australia has certain qualities 
which are rare in British public life. 
He has courage; he has firmness, he 
has eloquence. He is not blessed with 
obsolete formulas; he does not live in 
the frigid artificialities of the House 
of Commons; he knows his own mind 
and he is not a moral molluse of a 
political limpet. His deeds and his 
speeches have touched the people of 
this country by their force and splen- 
dour. They have shown him to be as 
much in earnest as our ministers are 
faint-hearted and as simple as they 
are pompous and long-winded. He 
always speaks straight to the heart. 
He does not put off till tomorrow what 
should be done today, and earlier in 
this war he set a great example to the 
home government by shattering the 
influence of Germany in Australia.— 
London Daily Mail. 


Fire Escape for Horses 

A large packing concern across the 
border has installed an automatic 
means for opening the doors of its 
heree stabie which allows the horses 
to stonpe at any time of the day or 
night there is danger of fire. The 
device is operated in much the same 
manner as an automatic sprinkler. 
When the temperature in the stables 
rises to a certain point a weight is 
released which falls on a lever that 
in turn releases all the doors simul- 
taneously. At the same instant cer- 
tain noises are made mechanically 
which frighten the horses from their 
places, The releasing lever is occa- 
sionally operated by hand to give the 
horses a fire drill. Each horse soon 
learns to trot from its stall when the 
door opens and the alarm sounds. 


“High buildings str,” remarked an 
American, contemptuously. “Why, in 
England you don’t know what height 
is! Last time I was in New York it 
was a blazing hot day and I saw a 
man coming out of a lift wrapped 
from top to toe in bearskins and I said 
to him: 

““*Why are you muffled up on a 
broiling hot day like this?” 

‘**Waal,’ said he, ‘you see I live at 
the top of the building and it’s so high 
that it's covered with snow all the 
year round!’ ” 


Tommy had returned from a birth- 
day party, his.round face wreathed in 
smiles. ‘I hope, Tommy,” said his 
mother, ‘that you were polite, and 
remembered your ‘Yes, please,’ and 
No, thank you,’ when things were 
passed to you.” 

“T remembered ‘Yes, please,’”’ re- 
plied the boy cheerfully, “but didn’t 
have to say ‘No, thank you,’ mother, 
because I took everything every time 
it was passed.” 


Air We Breathe. 
Two thousand gallons of air is a 
grownup person’s allowance for twen- 
ty-four hours 


GERMANY 
BY DECEI 


SRB Go iS pyle nes 


TRYING TO KEEP THE 


PEOPLE IN IGNORANCB 


Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the Socialist Leader, Says the People are 


Ordered ‘to Keep Their 


Mouths Shut, Despite the 


Hunger and Sufferings They are Enduring 


Canucks Receive 39,000 
Parcels From Home 


Canadian Red Cross Has Been Work- 
ing Hard to Comfort Men 


Nearly 49,000 parcels have been sent 
to date by the Canadian Red Cross 
to sick and wounded Canadian sol- 
diers in the various hospitals. The 
contents of the parcels were not chosen 
at random, but were according to each 
man’s request. 

A recent list includes newspapers 
toilet articles, mirrors, pipes, tobacco, 
socks, soit boots, canvas shoes, pens, 
books, sweaters, khaki shirts, under- 
wear, flowers, mouth organs, playing 
cards and candies. 

“Comfort bags,” as these parcels 
have become known, have achieved 
such fame among the soldiers as to 
cause some times an embarrassing de- 
mand. Most of the. articles thus sent 
out come in generous measure from 
the Red Cross branches in Canada. 
Others are purchased with money 
which comes here as thanks offering 
or marked especially to be devoted to 
provision. of comforts. This takes no 
account of the huge numbers of news+ 
papers sent to Canadian troops, which 
are forwarded with unstinted liberal- 
ity from all parts of Canada. 
just now, however, a shortage of 
papers from Nova Scotia, New Bruns- 
wick and Kingston. 

A protest has just come in from 
some men against a present of chew- 
ing gum which, they found, although 
it came from Canada; had been made 
in Germany. The recipients got rid 
of it and now sigh for the real Cana- 
dian article, 


Publishers and Prices 


Cost of Paper and Material Makes 


Higher Prices Necessary 


Although everyone ‘is ready to ad- 
mit that the cost of living has materi- 
ally increased during the last fifteen 
or twenty. years, some publishers 
complain that many of their subscri- 
bers cannot understand why rates 
should be increased and business men 
are asking why, prices of job work 
should be advanced. ‘ side Enh” 

The present critical condition in the 
paper market and the’ increase in the 
price of ink and practically all kinds 
of printing material due to the: war 
in Europe is cutting heavily into the 
profits of publishers,- and higher 
prices must be secured if they would 
make ends meet. F 

One day last week a man came to 
open up a subscription. When he 
found the price to be $1.50 he said, 
“I have never paid more than a dol- 
lar, and if you won’t take that you 
can go without.”?. We did. About the 
same time a business man called to 
order printing stationery. ° He was 
told that increased prices of paper 
would make the difference of about 
ten per cent. ‘Don’t want it,” he 
said, ‘ironically, ‘‘that is a pure hold- 
up.”’ He had to have the paper, and 
paid over a dollar extra to get it from 
a printer mail order house. The first 
of the week we ordered a special color 
of ink that last fall was priced at 
$300 a pound. it costs us now $4.50 
a pound. We bought a lot of special 
enamel paper this week that a month 
ago cost $7.50 per hundred pounds. 
Now we pay $10.00 per hundred 
pounds. Letter paper, envelopes ‘and 
printer’s stock have increased from 
twenty ‘to thirty-five per cent. Prices 
on nearly everything has increased, 
and no one questions the’ higher 
price made by the merchant, the law- 
yer, the doctor, and the lsporing man. 
But the fact that the printer of a 
newspaper asks twenty-five cents 
year more, or ten per cent. advance in 
work in which the material alone is 
increased one-third or one-half, is 
called a “hold up.” 

Unless you can make a fair profit 
on your work, why wear out your 
machinery and material besides tiring 
yourself? Spring is here, and the 
fishing will soon be good, Let the 
other fellow take the work if there is 
no money to be made, for sooner or 
later he will be out of the field of 
competition unless he sees the error 
of his ways.—Exchange. 


Great Prosperity {in Archangel 

Advices received from Archangel tel] 
of the greatest prosperty in the his- 
tory of that Russian city. 

Since the beginning of the war exten- 
sive improvements have been made in 
the harbor and on this work hundreds 
of workmen were employed. The piers 
are congested with freight—ammuni- 
tion Supp liea, food supplies, building 
material, lumber, ete., and every avail- 
able able bodied mun has been em- 
ployed to handle it. 

From 40,000 inhabitants which the 
city had a year ago, there now are 
over a hundred thousand. The coffee 
houses, concert halls, restaurants and 
hotels are crowded from morning un- 
til night, and everywhere there is a 
thriving business. The great question 
now agitating the city is where to get 
men to do all the work. For unskilled 
workingmen ten rubles a day are offer- 
ed and for skilled workingmen twenty 
rubles a day. On the other hand, food 
prices have increased beyond the re- 
cord mark. For a considerable time 
the inhabitants lived on fish entirely, 
and bread, sugar and coffee were dis- 
pensed with, 


Charity or Charity Mantles? 

The lady was making comments on 
clothing worn by some other ladiea 
at church, 

“The finest garment a woman can 
wear,” said her husband, “is the 
mantle of charity.” 

“Yes,”’ she snapped, “and it is the 


only dress that some husbands want 
their wives to wear, judging by the 
fuss they make over the bills.” 


O 


There i | 


The speech of Dr, Karl Liebnechf, 
German Socialist leader; “made in 
Berlin on May 1, in which he. made 
a severe attack on the government, 
led to his arrest, a despatch said. 
Dr. Leibnecht is to be tried by court 
martial for high treason. : 

A ech, of the speech, uncensored, 
reached New York by mail and is in 
part as follows: 

“Some years ago a witty Socialist 
has observed that in Prussia we Ger- 
mans have three great rights, which 
are: We can be soldiers, we can pay 
taxes, and we can keep our mouths 
shut. In these days this observation 
is too true. Today we are sharing 
these three great Prussian State pri- 
vileges in full, Every German citi- 
zen is given the full privilege to 
earry a rifle in any manner,, Even ‘the 
Boy Scout has been incited to’ play 
the ridiculous role of soldier. They 
have thus planted the spirit of hate 
deep in his youthful soul,, Meanwhile 
the old Landsturmer ts forced to per- 
form forced labor in invaded coun- 
tries, in spite of the fact that under 
the laws of the imperial constitution 
he cannot be called out for: any other 
purpose than for the defence of the 
fatherland. 

“As for the second privilege—the 
right to pay taxes—in this respect 
the German citizen is, up to the pres- 
jent time, far ahead of his brothers 
in foreign lands whom he.-is engaged 
in exterminating. And yet more 
privileges of this kind are awaiting 
him in the days to come—after the 
end of the war. The high taxes 
which the German people have 50 
far paid are insignificant compared 
to the great burdens which he must 
carry after the war, and for which 
his masters are daily preparing him 
with such touching delicacy of patri- 
otic sentiment through the medium of 
the official press. 

“The new Germany has the un- 
questionable right to maul halten 
(holding his tongue), Recently our 
official press has been flooded by au- 
thoritative and pharaisaic exhortations 
to soldiers’ wives that they must, for 
God's sake, not complain so much 
about the scarcity of food. Keep your 
mouth shut tight when hungry, keep 
} your mouth shut when your children 
are hungry, keep your mouth shut 
when your children want milk; keep 
| your mouth shut when your children 
‘ery for bread, keep your mouth shut 
and write no letters to the front.’ 

“Outside of Germany.these remarks 
might sound like the stock phrases 
of a professional agitutor, but not 
so in Germany, at least’ not in these 
days. I carefully watched for the 
effect of these remarks ull about me, 
and I saw no pair of dry eyes. 

“One is reminded of the fact that 
our police are weighing the bread, 
that the butter is out of the market, 
that fat, meat and margarine have 
reached a pricethat is beyond the 
probable reach of the workingman! 

“If her children’s stomachs are 
empty it is hard for the wife not to 
mention the fact to her far-away 
soldier husband that it is hard to 
provide her children with food while 
he is offering his life for his country. 
| But it is not found possible for your 
| masters to prevail upon you to ‘keep 
your mouths shut,’ then they resort 
to a more practical means. They have 
}a very simple means of stopping these 
| annoying complaints. The Prussian 
j censor is now supervising these let- 
‘ters of wives at home to their hus- 
! bands at the front. They simply do 
not allow this objectionable corres- 
pondence to go through. Poor and 
unfortunate German soldicr! He de- 
serves pity. 

“Everyone must keep his or her 
mouth shut, for the war protiteers 
must make money out of the want 
and misery of the wives and their 
husband soldiers at the front. 

“By a lie the German workingman 
was forced into the war, and by like 
lies they expect to induce him to go 
on with the war!” 

Dr, Liebnecht had scarcely finished 
this last sentence when as if by magio 
a sudden excitement broke out. Near 
the spot where the doctor and his 
friends had been standing the crowds 
surged back and forth. The great 
multitude in the palace grounds had 
the appearance of an immense sea 
whose surface was every inch covered 
with human ears, those of men and 
women. 

Several hundred thousand panie- 
stricken souls are rushing toward 
the streets and avenues that lead to 
|the palace grounds. The scene is 
frightful. Everyone is shouting. 
|Numberless mounted soldiers with 
large black whips in their hands 
lashed the crowds. Many were ki'led, 


The Colonel's Biblical Reason 

Colonel Roosevelt said in a recent 
interview in Oyster Bay: 

“The best way to avoid war is to 
| be ready for war. Not the too-proud- 
\to-fight, but the unafraid-to-fight is 
the man who gets along without being 
molested, 

“Can you tell me the reason why 
Daniel wasn't eaten by the lions?” a 
preacher once asked his tittle son, 

"No, sir. Why was it?’ said the 
boy. 

** ‘Because,’ explained the preacher, 
“the most of him was backbone, and 
the rest was grit.’” 


How They Will Go 


At a luncheon of prominent munis 
tion manufacturers one of the men 
announced that his company had just 
closed a contract for 5,000,000 shells 
to be delivered in Germany. The 
others were somewhat startled at 
such a statement, and somebody im. 
mediately asked: 
are you going to get them 
nr 

“The French are going to 
them in,” was the 
Opinion 


shoot 
answer.—Londop 


oe 


one gee ene 


THE EXrKESS, EMPRESS, 


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Published in the interests of Empress bridge constructed this ra 
and district. It is up to every man in the town to attend 


Clean, Bright, and Newsy 


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tion and guarantee prompt and efficient service. 


? Subscription price one dollar per year toany partof Canada 
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ADVERTISING RATES 
LEGAL and MUNICIPAL 


Friday from the Express Office, Third 
; citizen to stay away. 


PROFESSIONAL CARDS 
1 inch $18 per year ; 2 inch $23 per year ; 3 inch $32 per year. 
LOCAL READERS 
10c. per line straight. 


be taken up at that time. 


present and express their ideas on the subject. 


Local netices announcing concerts, socials and any other 
entertainments promoted for the monetary benefit of the 
individuals or organizations, will not be inserted in these 
columns unless paid for at the rate of 10c. per line each insert. 


TRANSIENT ADS. : 
Such as '‘ Wanted,” ‘‘ For Sale,”’ ‘‘ Lost ’’ and ‘' Found,’’ not If a female Duke isa Duchess, 


exceeding one inch, 50c, first insertion and 25c, eaeh subse-/ \¥/ould a temale spook be a spuchess ? 
quent insertion, Y ; 
eee And if a male goose 1s a gander, 
EMPRESS, ALTA , THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1916/T}4, would a male moose be a mander? 


THE NEW RED DEER RIVER BRIDGE |!f water you freeze is frozen, 


Is the maiden you squeeze, then, squozen ? 
If a thing you break is broken, 
Would a thing that you take be token ? 


If the plural of child is children, 
Would the plural of wild be wildren ? 


WHY NOT? 


A special meeting of citizens and farmers, 
under the auspices of the Board of Trade, 1s 
being called for Monday evening, July 17th, at 
8 p.m., in the dining room of the hotel, for the [svaA Gen bee OF cownrate cattle: 
purpose of discussing the bridge proposition,! Would a number of bows be battle? 
and if possible, devising some means of If a man who makes plays is a playwright, 


having the actual work commenced this coming! Would a man who makes hay be a haywright? 


fall. With the present high water in the Red/If a person who fails is a failure, 
Deer river and the west ferry out of commis-| Would a person who quails be a quailure ? 


sion, the road on the west side of the east/|f the apple you bite is bitten, 
ferry in an impassible condition, the need of a| Would the battle you fight be fitten ? 


trafic bridge is making itselt keenly felt] And if a young cat isa kitten, 
Messrs. C. S. Pingle and J. A. McColl, members. Then would a young rat be a ritten ? 


for Redcliff and Acadia, have been asked to be||f a person who spends is a spendthrift, 
Would a person who lends be a lendthrift ? 


If drinking too much makes a drunkard, 
Would thinking too much make a thunkard ? 


It is hoped to have a representative meet- But why pile on the confusion, 
ing, that something tangible may be done at/ stil], I'd like to ask in conclusion : 
once. A number of local business men have! If a chap from New York's a New Yorker, 
of late become very insistent in their demands| Would a fellow from Cork be a Corker? 


BURY’S 
J. I. STOUDT 


FRUIT STORE 
General Merchant 


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Childrens Shoes you with the BEST 
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Light and Heavy 
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Donald McArthur -_ - 


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STOUDT’S GROCERY 


Oxy - Acetylene 
Welding 


Welds Any Metal --- Any Size 


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It is a question on which we are 
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Sitting in our offices or on our counters 
and making suggestions will never accomplish 


The meeting, which will be held on 
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Farmers and busi- 


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Bring Us Your Broken Castings and 
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THE 


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14 Yearlings; also Good Work Ox.— 
T. ROWLES, 28-23-29, 6 


One Royal Typewriter. Nearly new. 
$60.00.—BLopceETT, ‘lhird Avenue. 


See re erence EE 
LOST 


Colt, black, two years old, white front 
foot, white stripe on face and branded V> 
on right shoulder. Ten dollars reward for 
information leading to recovery. Wm. 
Highmoor, Empress, Sec, 20-23-1, W4. 


a 
STRAYED 


Small bunch of Horses and Colts. 
Branded @3 on left shoulder. Also one 
Black Colt, branded key on right shoulder 
and © on left shoulder. Suitable reward, 
mm WALLMAN, 18-26-3, Acadia Ve; 
ey. 


One Black Mare, white nose, branded 
BarZ on the left hip. Strayed on to my 
premises, Sec, 17-23-1, 4th mer., since 
AD ONT danuisty Ist last. Owner can recover 
same by proving property and paying all 
expenses Hamlet h A, BISHOF. 6 


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1915.—Apply W. H. Robson, sec.-treas. 
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(continued from last week) 

Mrs, Beard accepted the posi- 
tion of official visitor. 

Mun. Dept. re ust of water in 
dugouts. Moved Brown, be it 
enacted that no person, com- 
pany or syndicate be allowed to 
use more than 12. burrels of 
water a day from the dugouts 
within the municipality, vader 
a penalty of $50. 


On account of the 


great increases in 
3 avi 


ithe cost - of ” news 


‘print, The Express 


is forced to increase 


the Bylww the subscription rate. 


ilowing road work in div. 1 be 


was read and carried three 
times in council. 

Bailey, that we adjourn for 
lunch. 

W. Wilson, asking for pound 
notices. Moved Shoffer, that) 
the secty. find out what supplies | 
each poundkeeper has, and aug- 
nent the same. 

Dept. re Fire Act, 
filed. 


After August | 


the rate will be 
J. H. Reed, re Rankin school. 


$ ] @ 50 
Moved Bailey, that first quarter 


be paid and that letter of ex- 
planation be attached. to ory part of Can 


Dept. re charging of tencing| q hat 
of dugoats. Brown, filed. : da od Great Britain 
W. M. Land Co. re surtax. | 
Brown, laid over. 

Moved Brown, that the tax) 
for municipal purposes be four| e 
mills, 

Moved Bailey, that the am-| CO the United States 
ounts of $327.07 on ranch and| 


school lands be cancelled. | 


Moved Shoffer, that the fol-| 
lowing school rates be set: 


Dorman 


Renew 


Rankin 2} mills; Craiglands| 
34; Highbury 6; Bailey 63 ;| 


~ Care of Ri 
ay 7 ‘j rl 2 
THE QUALITY ANY PIECE Ob 
GOWANS, KENT & CO., 
IS ASSURED. IN ORDER THAT ITS S. 
MAY BE PRESERVED ALL'THAT IS Ni 
CARE WHEN CLEANING hy 


_ First wash with soap and tepid water, using a h. rinse 
in a clear tepid water, 
After draining for a few seconds rub cutting thorc with clean 


dry wood sawdust and place aside to dry, allowing the uwdust to ad- 
here. In a few minutes this may be lightly brushed off with a soft 
brush and the article will sparkle with all its natural brilliancy. 

Do not dry with a cloth or towel, but allow the air to absorb the 
moisture, 

If sawdust is not at hand a little liquid ammonia or alcohol may be 
added to the rinsing water. 

Never use very warm or very cold water, as these extremes cause 
expansion and contraction, either of which is liable to crack the glass. 

A little aleohol left in a water bottle or decanter overnight will 
remove any dullness from the inside. 

Never allow two pieces of Cut Glass to strike each other when handling. 
: Owing to the use of chemicalsin bleaching tissue-papeg, a yellow stain 
is sometimes left on Cut Glass that has been wrapped up in this paper 
tor any Jength of time. Should you find such stain on a piece of Elite 
Cut Glass it is easily removed by washing in warm water. 


M. A. McCOLL Watchmaker 


Issuer ot Marriage Licenses 


J eweller 


—— 
One 45 Mogul Engine for Sale 


NEARLY AS GOOD AS NEW 
Used 48 days. Have to Sell 


PRICE $2200.00 


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WINONA MINNESOTA LAND Co. 


Sec. 27, Tp. 25, R.26,W 8rd. 12 miles north of the Sask. river 


GET YOUR | 


Warrior 4}; Elma and Corntield 
laid over, 


Moved Bailey, that hospital 
bill for the following patients 
be paid: Mrs. Ruthven, 13 days 


[ia ai Sie the ee oe 
$32.50; G. Klarenback, 8 days| 


$20; Mrs. D. Francis, 5 days| at the 


$12.50; Len Carley, 4 days $10. | 
Ronald Griggs,auditor$156.39 | Old Rate 
Stationery $5.05 and road 
work Div. 2, 16.50. 


Moved Reeve, that the state- 


ment from Warrior school for $ 
762,00 be accepted and that they The Express IS one) 


be advanced 50.00. 


Moved Brown, that the fol-|, , 
lowing road work be done in| INCreasSe the price. 


division 2: Filling Coulee on 


river front and completing un- You may subscribe} 


finished work. 


of the last papers to | 


Moved Dorman, that the fol- or renew before Aug. 
done: 54 miles to be graded 


Ist, 1916, at the old 
from Elma school north; *} rate for l, yy OI 3 


miles to be plowed, cut on Bus- 


Shipment Just Received 


SEE C. 0. CARLSON, at the Empress Lumber Yard 
Agent for Deering Farm Machinery 
Do You Ever Give a Thought as to “What A 
Good Plow Will Do For You?” 


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Pay before the Advance in Price 


Ostrom 


tard’s and Roland's Hills ; roads ¢ } 
already completed to be dragged years in advance, 


Moved Brown, that Dorman | 
arrange to purchase lands for 
= o lt Now 


Moved Brown, that Secretary 
write owners re purchase of : 
Pen Time Is Short 
for same at no more than the 
offset price; also asking Mr.} 
from dugout on 28-24-26, 
Moved Bailey, that W. E. PACIFIC 
6 (Sec, 27-26-26), E; d t | 
Moved Bailey, that the Health mon on 
measles in the Gorefield district. 
Moved Henry, that the school July | 0 to | Ny 19 | 6 
their assessments to pay 
men in active service. RO UND TRIP 
Moved Bailey, that the Secy.| ps : e 
write R. M. Elma re the pas- From all Stations in Al- 
Moved Bailey, that the Secy. TO EDMONTON 
be authorized to sign lease re J. 
|Going Dates--July 10 
Moved Brown, that Shoffer 
Moved Brown, that bills am-| Return limit--July 18 
ounting to 212.20 for Council 


land for dugouts and to pay 

York to have fence removed CANADIAN 

Young be Poundkeeper for Div. 

Officer at Prelate be instructed | e e,e 

to attend to the epidemic of Exhibition | 
districts make APLAR ROME 1 SINGLE FA RE for 
sage through Bissett’s farm. berta and Saskatchewan 
Blakeley and J. E. Martin. 

he deputy reeve for 3rd quarter to | 4th 

members and expenses be paid. 


Full particularsand tickets from 
any Canadian Pacific Ticket 
Agent or 


R. DAWSON, 


Moved Dorman, that we ad- 
journ to meet at 9.30 a.m, on 
July 5th, 1916, 


Cleaning and Pressing 
Done by One Who Knows How 


Frank Schollen, — 
At the EMPRESS HOTEL 


Old Clothes Look Like New Satisfaction. Guaranteed: 


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ON WEDNESDAY 


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COMMENCING AT ONE O'CLOCK P.M. 


Dunmore, 8 miles east of Medicine Hat, junction of the 
Main line C.P.R. and Crows Nest line 


180 Head of Clyde 


Horses and Mares 


85 Head Brood Mares, 40 of these mares with colts at foot 
25 Head of Geldings, three and four years old : 
30 Head of 2-year-olds 40 Heud of Yearlings 


(F-The above stock is ull of a good Clyde breeding. The 
mares of this bunch were mostly all sired by “ Gold Dust,” 
the famous Stallion from the Sarnia Ranching Company, 
imported from the Old Country, and have been using pure 
bred stallions every year. 


TERMS OF SALE: CASH and NO RESERVE 


Am going out of the horse business. Outsiders bring 
bank reference or marked cheques. 


Owned by the Rose Glen Ranching Co., Medicine Hat, Alta. 
GEO. SATTERLEE, Auctioneer - Medicine Ha, 


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(Continud) 


to’ Wenge medical phraseology and 
medical Wark, Aad seemed so familiar 
to him. Had‘he. hot been practising 


‘jaway in the north until he was sum- 
‘moned to Australia to take over the 
Property bequeathed to him by a rich 

vend éhifdless uncle? And—had he not 
helped the overworked doctor on the 


eQueen of the May during the voyage 


Jhome, when ‘poor iittle Mrs. Merivale 
[ed been so desperately ill, and—had 
ied. Why—of course she had died, 
the poor little girl who was so little 
“Whilre than a child, with pathetic blue 
ise and such golden curls. 
yemall, pathetic soul she had been. 
; mek --the woman silhouetted against 
oy DR aakground of inky blackness, he 
saw her tace again noyw, her name 
came back to him—Nina Mansfield— 
beguiling, with a fascination 
made no appeal to him, 
though he acknowledged her charm. 
Nina Mansfield—he had last seen her 


evra her place in the boat as it 


wung out from the davits, her face 
Showing very white wth the dark 
igh ais her, the ship’s lights 


nig 
taf the burnished glory of her 
nse 


black face that cover- 
sed it ... No, that was not the last 
time he had seen Nina Mansfield 
She was the woman to whom he had 
been taken by Vanner, and Vanner’s 
friend, Brentwood. She was the wo- 
man who, whyn he went to her in 
his hour of need, had denied all knowl- 
edge pf hima, tl gh at the risk of his 
Spat eh fila done his utmost to 
save ship- 
to the 
only for 
On the ship he had 
her as one of the adven- 
weed experience had taught 
to..such » woman neither 
honor or truth nor any human kind- 
ness can make any successful appeal 
when opposed to her own interests. 
But when he saw her at the house 
to Wicp Vanner had taken him she 


day een called Mansfield, of that 
af foe: she had worn dead-black 

f He garments of a widow; 
name had been-—wait—what was 


it? Merivale! Mrs. Denis Merivale. 
Why, then, she must have been mas- 
querading as the woman who had 
died on he Queen of the May. She 
must have personated the little golden- 
haired girl with the innocent blue 
eves, the girf from whom she was 
poles asunder in every essential char- 
acteristic. She was deceiving those 
good souls who were treating her as 
a daughter-in-law, deceiving the girl 
with the sweet eyes who had_ been 
engaged to Carr's nephew, Dr. Brent- 
wopd. Was it his place to expose her 
deceit—to tell them the truth? These 
thoughts seemed to fill up the time 
so: completely—those, and the many. 
many thoughts of Myra which per- 
meated every corner of his mind, that 
he could not feel impatient as the 
hours crept by; and he was almost 
surprised when on the following 
morning Vanner’s tall figure appeared 
in the doorway. Being an observant 
man he at once noticed the subtle 
change on the doctor’s face, the radi- 
ance in his eyes, but because Myra’s 
letter to him still reposed unopened 
on the table in his lodgings, he did 
not connect her with the change in 
Vanner. His own face shone with 
happiness, as he put out his hand to 
his friend: his own overwhelming joy 
swamped every consideration. 

“Why Lowndes!" Vanner exclaimed. 
as the two shook hands, “T have been 
wondering why I haven’t heard from 
you the last four weeks. JT imagined 
you were working too hard to write 


r the 


T re, night of tye 
OK ql | fhe belonged 


lass of ids who play 


Shey iewst pena. 
trecognized 


to me. It never entered my head that 
you could be ill—much less in hos- 
pital.” He did not add what had 


GIRL COULD 
NOT WORK 


How She Was Relieved from | 


Pain by Lydia E. Pinkham’s 
Vegetable | Compound. 


Taunton, wane -_‘ I hed| pains {n both 
sides and when my periods came | had 
to stay at home 
from work and suf- 
fer a long time. 
One day a woman 
came to our house 
and asked my 
mother why I was 
suffering. Mother 
told her that I suf- 
fered every month 
and she said, ‘Why 
don’t you buy a 
bottle of Lydia E. 

Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound?’ My 

mother bought it and the next month I 

was so well that I worked all the month 

without staying at homeaday. I am 
in good health now and have told lots of 
girls about it.’’—Miss CLARICE MORINa 
22 Russell Street, Taunton, Mass. 
Thousands of girls suffer in silence 
every month rather than consult a phy- 
sician. If girls who are troubled with 
palatal or irregular periods, backache, 
eadeche, dragging-down sensations, 
- fainting spells or indigestion would take 
fydia KE. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- 


pound, a safe and pure remedy made , 


from roots and herbs, much suffering 
Seight be avoided, 

Write to Lydia EF. Pinkham Medicine 
Co., Lynn, Mass. (confidential) for free 
advice which wil! prove helpful, 


W. N. UU. J112 


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also crossed his mind; thle Lidwindes’ 
silence had been due’ td the fact’ that 
by leaving Myra’s: letter to him un- 
answered, he had tacitly advised her 
to marry his ‘friend—he might have 
found it difficult or impossible to 
write to either of them for the time [| 
being. But he said nothing of all 
this to the sick man, only  askify 
ygently— 

“How do you come to be in hospital 
at all? What happened to you?” 

“Lt most fortunately fell over al 
bucket on my lodging stairs, and 


What; 


knocked my head against the wall,” 
the other answered with a pleased 
laugh. 

“Yes—most fortunately,” the man 
in the bed smiled at the other’s mys- 
tification, “the person who left that 
bucket on the stairs did me the best 
turn anybody ever did me. She—gave 


me back my memory.” 
“Gave you back your memory?” 
Vanner still smiled, but he had an 


odd feeling that the smile was be- 


coming fixed upon his lips, that its 
naturalness had gone—that it had | 
grown artificial, fixed, strange. In 


a lightning flash of understanding he 
knew what those words of the other 
man must mean to him if they were 
true. Ah! God—if they were true!) 
Perhaps however they were still the 
ravings of delirium, perhaps—Lowndes 
only imagined he had found his lost 
memory; surely it could not be that 
now at the eleventh hour, remem- 
brance had returned to him. But the 
clear glance of the sick man’s eyes 
negatived this thought, and with a 
mighty effort Dick braced himself to 
bear all that he had to bear. 

“Yes, I) remember everything,” 
again came the triumphant repetition 
of the same phrase, ‘you needn’t call 
it was a good 


me Lowndes any more; 
enough name while it lasted; it an- 
swered its purpose splendidly. But 


I'm not John Lowndes any more now, 
I'm never going to ve John Lowndes 
again. My name is Lionel Darrell,— 
I am a medical man by profession,— 
and if I wanted a profession I 
shouldn't have to work in a shipping 
office, though I can tell you I’m grate- 


ful to Carr for having given me the 
work there whilst [I was not myself. 
But I’ve got money enough without 
working, thanks to an old uncle who 
made his pile in Australia. I’ve got 
money for Myra and for all I want. 
And I'm my own man again with a 
name of my own: and I’m _ perfectly 
free to marry.” 

Out of the welter of thought seething 
in Vanner’s brain one thought defin- 
itely emerged—the man before him did 
not know of his engagement to Myra. 
Rither because of his accident, or for 
some reason yet unexplained, Lowndes 
did not know that the wedding day 
of the woman he loved was fixed for 
the following week: and that she was 
convinced she had received his sanc- 
tion, his advice about that marriage. 
For a moment the doctor’s parched 
lips refused to utter the words of con- 
cratulation he knew he ought to 
speak; for a moment the ward and its 
row of beds danced before his eyes, 
and ran together in a_ bewildering 
maze of red coverlets and white faces. 
Then with a great effort he pulled 
himself together, and said quietly— 

“T congratulate you on what you 
must feel was a lucky accident.” He 
could not say more, but the other man 
was too jubilant himself to observe 
any lack of warmth in his friend. 

“Lucky? My dear man I thank God 
day and night for what seemed at the 
time just a piece of carelessness. 
Doesn't it show what good things can 
come out of apparent evils? I sent 
for you at once, because I knew you 
would be glad for me, and T knew you 
would tell Myra. I shall be able to 
earry her burdens now.” 

Tell—Myra. The words sounded like 
a knell in Vanner’s ears, and a temp- 
est of passionate protest rose within 
him. Tell Myra? That would mean 
that he himself must say goodbye to 
all his hopes of happiness with her; 
that this man and not he would make 
her life one with his own, that this 
man with the blue eyes and smiling 
face would have her for his wife, 
whilst he, he who loved her and who 
would have served her so faithfully, 
must go empty away into the outer 
darkness alone. He was shaken by 
a gust of resentment against the sick 


man, against the accident which had 
given him back his memory, against 
Fate. 


“But why should you let yourself he 
baulked of your happiness?” a voice 
within him whispered, “tell this man 


that his memory hus come back too 
late. Let him think that the marriage 
which is to take place a week henee, 
is already an accomplished fact. Go 
back to Rudstone, hold your tongue 
till after Myra is safely vours, and 
then speak. It will be easy enough 
to hurry on the wedding, and mean- 
while keep silence. Why should you 
be defrauded of your happiness? Why 
should you make such a stupendous 
sacrifice? You have as much right 


to happiness as Lionel Darrell or any 
other man: it is monstrous that the 
cup should be dashed from your lips 
now. Take what the gods have given 
you; keep silence until Myra is your 
wife—fight for your happiness, and | 
win it—at any cost. | 

(To be continued) 


Churchill's Stick 


One of Mr. Winston  Churchill’s 
greatest treasures is the gold-mounted 
cane that was given him by King} 
Edward as a wedding present. Once 
Mr. Churchill, when staying in Paris, 
left the cane in a railwayetrain. It 
cost him a lengthy telegram and a 
big fee for a special nressenger to 
recover it. 


“Experience is a goom asset.” ‘T'd 
much prefer the bank roll I exchanged 
for mine.’’—Boston Transcript. 


“What makes Carol so disliked?” 
“She got the most votes for being 
| popular. 


"~-Chicago News, 


— $e 


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THE EXPRESS, 


5 ci 


Prosperous Alberta 
nee 

The Pheffomenal Growth of Agricul- 
ture and Other Industries 


Pig's crops of wheat and coarse grains 
th high prices; herds of beef cattle 
with live steers ranging up to $7.50 
per hundredweight; hogs at from ten 
to eleven cents a pound; butter, 
cheese, milk and cream products con- 
stantly mounting; more farming and 
better farming, bigger crops and big- 
ger prices—these in themselves are 
sufficient to explain Alberta's pros- 
perity. But the great headway the 
province is making is better under- 
stood by making some simple com- 
parisons and a few conclusions. 

In 1905, ten years beiore last sea- 
son’s crop--Alberta produced a total 
of 1,617,505 bushels of spring wheat, 
an average ot a trifle ander wl 1-2 
bushels per acre. The winter wheat 
crop the same year was less than 
700,000 bushels, and the total wheat 
erop about 2,200,000 bushels. In 1915 


‘the same province produced a wheat 


crop of 51,355,000 bushels, and the 
average wheat yield was almost 33 


bushels to the acre, according to the 
Dominion government returns. 

Almost equally remarkable has 
been the development of other grain 
crops. In 1905 the oat crop was 9,- 
500,000 bushels; in 1915, 107,741,000 
bushels. Barley in the same period 
has increased from 1,775,000 bushels 
to almost 7,000,000 bushels and flax 
from 8,537 bushels to 1,124,000. Tak- 
ing these four principal cereals the 
comparison is as follows: 

1905 crop—13,483,337 bushels. 

1915 crop—167,220,000 bushels. 


But these figures do not tell the 
whole story of crop production, by 
any means Not only has Alberta 
demonstrated within the last ten 
years that she can grow crops of 
wheat, oats, barley and flax unsur- 


passed on the continent, but she has 
also found that she can grow other 
crops which were not attempted ten 
years ago, or which were grown in 
such small quantities that they did 
not figure in the returns, Among the 
crops so classed may be mentioned 
rye, which last year amounted to 
463,000 bushels, and alfalfa totalling 
in 1915 over 34,000 tons. Other crops 
of importance were potatoes, 5,155,- 
000 bushels; turnips and other root 
crops, | 000 bushels, mixed grains 
67,080 bushels, fodder corn, 5,700 tons; 
hay and clover, 311,000 tons. 

But the permanent prosperity of 
Alberta is not wholly dependent up- 
on its crops. The district which is 
now Alberta was famous for its 
stock interests before its possibilities 
as a grain producing country was 
generally realized. Definite figures of 
stock production are not so_ easily 
obtained as in the case of grain, but 
the following taken from the govern. 
ment returns, are sufficiently accurate 
to prove their point. Going back 
only as far as 1911 we get the follow 
ing evidence of the development of 
the live stock industry: 

Livestock in Albcrta: 


1911 1916 
OTT Ling an anon 407,153 620,000 
Dairy Cows .. .. «- .. 147.6 210.000 


Other Cattle .. 
Sheep .. 
Swine .. 

rhe 
the year 1915 were 
The production of creamery butter 
was in the neighborhood of 7,000,000 
pounds, compared with 2,000,000 ibs 
in 1910. The 
system of grading, handling and 
marketing its butter, which has re. 
sulted in a reputation on outside mar. 
kets that assures to the Alberta dairy- 
man top prices for its produce, The 
dairy produce of Alberta in 1915 was 
worth more than the entire cereal 
crop of the province—wheat, oats, 
barley and flax—only ten years ago, 

These figures are sufficient to ex- 
plain Alberta’s present prosperity, 
and shed a clear light upon the source 
of her prosperity in the future. Al- 


. 237, 510 400, ‘000 


worth $11,000,000 


berta, however, is a province of nat- 
ural resources and it is worth while 
peinting out some of the other in- 


dustries which are contributing to the 
general welfare, Alberta has immense 
forest wealth in the northern part of 
the province, and along the eustern 
slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Great 
timber reserves have been created, 
which will preserve this wealth per- 
manently to the people of the country, 


dairy " products of Alberta for| 


province has an expert | 


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laborers to make their homes by pref- 
erence in Alberta; and the rich agri- 
cultura! districts capable of producing 
the foodstutts for millions of people. 
But although as stated, manufactur- 
ing is yet in its infancy, it has_al- 
ready assumed some importance. The 
latest census returns show that 290 
manufacturing plants in the province, 
consuming raw material worth ten 
millions per year, and producing fin- 
ished products almost to the value of 
twenty million dollars. 

The farmer may not feel any dir- 
ect interest in lumbering, mining, or 
manufacturing, but these industries 
have a great bearing on his prosper- 
ity, nevertheless. They consume a 
large proportion of his oats, hay, 
dairy products, ete., affording him 
the best of markets—the home mar- 
ket—and at the same time they supply 
him with lumber, fuel and certain 
lines of manufactured articles at less 
cost than he would otherwise pay. 
As their importance increases, their 
beneficial effect on agriculture will 
increase in proportion, 

In 1909 Alberta stood eighth among 
the provinces of Canada in the matter 
of railway mileage. Now she stands 
fifth, and except for some outlying 
districts, agricultural communities 
have railways close at hand. A gov- 
ernment telephone system has been 
extended over the province in the 
same period, and there are few dis- 


age of telephone connection. 

Roads have been built, schools and 
churches established, and 
ships of pioneer life to a large extent 
have become memories. Yet all this 
has been accomplished in a decade, 
and there is every reason to believe 
that the province is only on the thres- 
hold of its prosperity. Alberta bas 
more agricultural land than any other 
province, but us yet less than four per 
cent. of it is under crop. More- 
over, Alberta has one of the larg- 
est irrigation enterprises in the world 
Irrigation means, eventually, close 
settlement, intensive farming, and en- 
ormous production in proportion to 
the area under cultivation, 

With such a record behind, and such 
possibilities ahead, the future of ayri- 
culture in Alberta is assured. Never 
before was the farm so attractive. No 
other pursuit offers the same assur- 
ance of a good living and independ- 
ence, and the very fact that it takes 
brains as well as muscle to farm 
under modern methods has raised 
the farmer to a higher place in the 
estimate of all other lines of industry. 
And nowhere will brains and muscle 
find better reward than in Alberta. 


Canada’s Record 


How an American Paper Views Work 
Accomplished by Canada in En- 
acting Prohibition Measures 


Before it had received the news of 
the splendid success of the prohibition 
movement in the Province of Ontario, 
the “New Republic’? which is the 
official organ of the American Anti- 
Saloon League, had an editorial en- 
titled “Canada’s virile response” in 
which the situation, this side of the 
boundary line, was referred to in the 
following terms: 

Canada us an integral part of the 
British Empire, is in the midst of a 
struggle to the death for National ex- 
| istence. 

The best blood of the Dominion is 
being spattered all over the hills of 
northern France. The fathers and 
; mothers gladly give up their sons; 
girls give up their sweethearts, and 
wives give up their husbands. The 
tax payers dig deep into their pockets 
and all wonder what else they can do. 

While patriotism is ablaze from Van- 
couver to Quebee what are the rum 
sellers doing? They are intervening 
to balk their countrys efforts. Did 
Canada snivel and cringe and stutter 
and wriggle and crawl concerning 
this? Not much. 

Alberta led off by wiping out the 
saloons of the entire province. 

Then along came Saskatchewan with 
jan anti-bar law, closing every dram 
shop in her boundaries. 

{ Then the people of Manitoba enact- 
ed a state wide prohibition law with 
a two to one majority. 

Then the Legislature of Nova Sco- 
tia met and enacted a state wide law 
for that province. 


while permitting Aa reasonable cut of Now British Columbia is planning 
timber every year, At the present: to oust the disloyal traffic from her 
time the average senson’s cut is about } boundaries, 
50,000,000 feet of, lumber. This does | In the hour ot public trouble whe- 
not include the timber cut by farmers! ther it be in a municipal riot or whe- 
fon building purposes, fencing, and ther it be a world wide war, the first 
te Ja ' ay step necessary to success is to close 
A Ng pAmar saraniat aaLene an RD the dirty and disloyal dram shop. 
n 1e nportan source 0 wealt! ’ 

r ! § ike the T us : 
According to the figures of the de- Like ie Typhus, the saloon is al 


partment of agriculture the game and 
furs taken in the nrovinee last vear 
had an aggregate value of one million 
dollars. 

The fish catch for the same period 
is estimated at $250,000, 

In the matter of coal production 
Alberta stands second among the 
provinces of the Dominion, being ex- 
ceeded only by Nova Scotia, and in 
the wealth of her coal deposits Al- 
berta stands easily first. The pres- 
ent oufput of about four million tons 
isa very important factor in the proy- 
ince’s prosperity. 

As a manufacturing province 
berta is in its infaacy, 
has striking advantages which must 
bear fruit in the future. Among 
thesa are its immense resources of 
coal, natural gas and water power; 
its own mineral wealth, as yet little 
case of coal, and 
mineral wealth of the adjoining 
province of British Columbia; the fay- 
orable climate, which, 
better known, will lead artisans and | 


Al- 
although it 


RED ROSE TEA‘ goodteer 


as it becomes’ 


ways an evil and a source of trouble, 
but this evil is accentuated in the hour 
of publie distress, 

Canada’s response to this challenge 
of alcohol is worthy a great, a magni- 
ficent people, 

Our hats are off to the Canucks.” 

-From the Pioneer.—H. Arnott, M. 
ay, M. 0. BS; 


Forest Protection 


The State of Maine makes an annual 
appropriation of $71,400 for forestry 
work, Of this, $69,400 is expended on 
fire protection, $1,000 on 
and reforestation work, and the bal- 
ance on investigations and publica- 
tions, 

In 


Massachusetts, the annual for- 
estry appropriation is $83,000, of 
which $33,000 is for fire protection, 
$10,000 for nurseries and reforestation 
work, and $20,00 for the purchase and 
maintenance of state forests. The 
remainder, $20,000, is expended for 
administration, publications and in- 
vestigation, 


tricts which have not now the advant- | 


the hard- | 


nurseries | 


L?- TOBACCO | 


10 CENTS PER PLUG 


Something About Heavy Guns 


The German Seventeen-inch Naval Gun Theory 
Has at Last Been Exploded 


As to the big 17-inch naval 
theory, that was soon exploded. 
French had found the position of the 
gun that was firing into Dunkirk and 
photographed it. It was found to be 
not a naval gun at all, neither was it 
of 17-inch calibre. It was only. a Ger- 
man 15-inch siege howitzer embedded 
in concrete and rigidly set at its max- 
imum elevation so that it could not 
be actually aimed, but merely fired 


haphazard in the general direction | 


of Dunkirk. Its purpose was merely 
frightfulness.: People in French towns 
soon got used to these big shells, 
their effect soon wears off, and they 
do not cause so much damage after 
all as one would be led to suppose. 
Thus the theory of Mr. Douglas re- 
bounded on his own head. 

Common sense, atso, would have 
told such experts that even if the 
Germans had ships armed with the 
17-inch naval guns, such monster 
pieces would only be handicaps. As 
guns vary according to the cube of 
their calibre, it can readily be figured 


gun | 
The | 


{a ship like the Queen Elizabeth, car- 


rying 17-inch guns. But owing to the 


curvature of the earth, the maximum 


range at sea is about 19 miles. Now, 
these 15-inch guns fire extremely ef- 
|fectively at such a range, and there 
is not anything on the sea that could 
float any length of time once these 
15-inch guns got the drop on it. The 
London Truth says that when the 
Queen Elizabeth was given her trials 
at target shooting the marks were 19 
miles away, and she perforated every 
mark at the first broadside. 

But with four 17-inch guns firing 
against eight 15-inch guns you would 
have, giving the same rate of fire, the 
Queen Elizabeth actually firing two 
shots to the other's one, and = she 
would put the other out of action be- 
fore it could do much if any damage 
to her, for she would have superiority 
of fire right from the start, and 
smother the opposing warship under @ 
hail of shells.—From the ‘Toronto 
World. 


out that a 17-inch gun would weigh London do laborers are earning 
about double the weight of the 15-}as much as per week. It is not 
inch gun. So at the most four !7-/so long ago that they struck for 12 
inch guns could only be mounted on; cents an hour, 
- 
_—— a. 
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The Merchants 


1. To the Shareholders: 


Capital Stock paid in.........665 
Rest or Reserve Fund......... 
Dividends declared and unpaid . 


herewith 


2. To the Public: 


Deposits not bearing interest. ...... 


date of statement). 
Balances due to Banks and Banking 


Bills payable 
Acceptances under letters of credit 


Current Coin held.. 


Deposit in the Central ‘Gold Reserve .. 


Dominion Notes held..........+++ 
Notes of other Banke ... 


Statement of Liabilities and Assets at 29th April, 1916. 


LIABILITIES. 


Balance of Profits as per Profit and Loss Account submitted 


Notes of the Bank in Circulation.... 
Deposits bearing interest (including interest accrued to 
Balances due to other ‘Banke i in Canada..........0000005 


United Kingdom and foreign countries 


Liabilities not included in the foregoing ... 


ASSETS. 


Bank of Canada 


$14,426,526.62 


seeeeeee +S 7,486,906.00 
ese tseseoeveneenue 17, 181,959.18 
54,995,069.97 

363,79%39 


Correspondents in the 


e 1,029, 702.00 


396, 361,363.07 


te ecteese seeececeeee +S 3,681,854, 13 
+++»  1,000,000.00 

eee sees 8,106,240,25 
702,006.00 


Cheques on other Banks .. 2,754,968.83 
Balances due by other Banks in Canada 2,836.92 
Balances due by Banks and Banking Correspondents in the 

UnitediRingdomisccssscssceccecssssetecseciseecsnes 207,226.65 
Balances due by Banks and Peaking Correspondents else- 

where than in Canada and the United Kingdom. (In 

LOG SEHR ED) Goon vonbspocossooponad snopon0nnND 3, 892,026.83 
Dominion and Provincial Government securities not ex- 

ceeding market value. 2,480 ,446.72 
Canadian Municipal Securities, ‘and ‘British, Foreign and 

Colonial public securities other than Canadian ........ 5,251,321.38 
Railway and other Bonds, Debentures and Stocks, not ex- 

RESGING MarkOlivalUGuimeraah asset eied sie seaieeiest §,055,106.27 
Call Loans in Canada on Bonds, Debentures and Stocks... 5,175,048.49 
Call Loans elsewhere than in Canada ........ cove cceres 2,651,404 32 

$40,960, 486.84 
Other Current Loans and Discounts in Canada (less rebate 

Ofiinterest) ovaniee ae ceicaellecariccssehiecesie heed estes 48,835,565.38 

| Other Current Loans and Discounts elsewhere than in 

Canada (lees rebate of interest) 6... 0... cc cece eee ee 203,125.72 
Liabilities of customers under letters of credit as per 

contra. f seveeeeeees 1,029,702.00 
Real Estate other ‘than bank premises. AAOnCTIn ET 177,186.29 
Overdue debts (estimated loss provided for) ArHArASnNENAn 164,363.18 
Banh Premises, at not more than cost, less amounts written 

Ci iaanonoanandbaoonnobponnc-androjanianoannganonccd 4,507, 782.34 
Deposit with the Minister for the purposes of the Circula- 

tonitundinasaananarscneeaaieotsiieiteneesenaiine 345,000.00 
Other Assets not included in the foregoing Tove 
K. W. BLACKWELL, E. F. HEBDEN, 

Vice-President General Manager. 
Report of the Auditors to the Sharcholders of the Merchants Bank of Canada. 
In accordance with the provisions of Sub-sections 19 and 20 of Section 56 of the Bank 
Act, we report to the Shareholders ua follows :— 
We have examined the above Balance Sheet with the Books of Account and other 
records of the Bank at the Chief Office and with the signed returns from the Branches 
and Agencies, 


and at a different time during the year, and 


opinion the transactions of the Bank which 
in the powers of the Bank, and the above 


exhibit a troe and correct view of the state of the Bank's affairs according to the best of 


ous information and the explanations given 


We have checked the cash and verified the securities of the Bank at the Chief Office 
adainet the entries in regard thereto in the books of the Bank as oa April 29th, 1916, 


found them to agree with such entrice. We 


have also attended at some of the Branches during the year and checked the cash and 
verified the securities held at the dates of our attendance and found them to agree with 
the entries in the books of the Bank with regard thereto. 

We have obtained all the information and explanations we have required, 


In our 
have come under oar notice have been with- 
Balance Sheet is properly drawn up so as to 


to us and as shown by the books of the Bank 


VIVIAN HARCOURT, of Deloitte, Pender, Grifhths & Co, | duaee 
J, REID HYDE, of Macintosh & Hyde re 


Montreal, 23rd May, 1916, 


She Had Him Trained 


“William! she shouted in a voice} 
fit to command a regiment, ‘take 
your feet off the table this very in- 
stant!” 

“Margaret, I want you to know,” 
he said, in a voice that was surcharg- 
ed with manly determination, 
there is but one person in the world 
that IT will allow to talk to me in that 
way." 

With an irate mien she arose and 
looked into his eyes, 

“And who is that, sir, may I ask?” 
she thundered, 

“Why, you, my dear,” he gently 
answered, as he removed his feet from 
the table-—New York Globe. 


“that | 


The Heroic French School Teacher 


Some day, when peace reigns and 
‘the story of the great war is written, 
there will be a chapter devoted to the 
courage of school teachers who amid 
bursting shells have held their classes 


in order that the youth of French 
might not be neglected in their 
| studies. Rheims, constantly under 


bombardment by the Germans, econtin- 
ues its educational service to its 
children, In the champagne cellars 
the school teachers of Rheims are 
sheltering from the dangers of the 
streets more than 13,000 children and 
offering them the possibilities of con- 
tinuing their studies.—New York 
Press. 


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An Excelsior Policy 


Assets Over Four Million Dollars 


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For the Laundry | 


For nearly 60 years, Edwardsburg 
“Silver Gloss” has been the standby. 

In one pound packages and six pound fancy enamelled tins, 
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MONTREAL, CARDINAL, 


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Makers of “Crown Brand” and ‘Lily White’’ Corn Syrups and Benson's Corn Starch. 


Silver Gloss Starch 


The Island of Nauru 
Just south of the equator and some 
two hundred miles from its nearest 
neighbor (Ocean Island) is the Island 
of Nauru, so small that it doesn’t ap- 
pear at all in many atlases, but so 


«ich in its phosphate beds and cocoa- 


nut palms that in 1913 it exported 
about $2,000,000 worth of phosphate 
and copra. 


Freezing Excludes Impurities 
Experiments have shown that in 
freezing ice excludes eighty per cent. 
of impurities from water, and that 
storage of ice further reduces the bac- 
teria it contains. 


Fans are carried ky men and women 
of every rank in China. It is a com- 
pliment to invite a friend or distin- 
guished guest to write some sentiment 
on the host’s fan as a memento of any 
«especial occasion. 


”“ 


WEAR 


SHOES 
for every SPORT 
and RECREATION 


‘Worn hy every member 
of the family 


THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY. Not No2 WS. 
THERAPION istic 

Hospitals with 
eBreat success, CURES CHRONIC WEAKNESS. LOST VIGOR 


& Vim KIDNEY BLADDER, DISEASES. BLOOD POISON, 
PILES KITHE® NO DRUGGISTS or MAIL $1 POST 4 CTS 


TRY NEW DRAGEE (TASTELESS) FORMOF Basy TO TAKB 
THERA rae 
LASTING CURB, 
@EE THAT TRADE MARKED WORD ‘THERAPION' IS ON 
ABRIT.GOVT STAM AFFIXED TO ALL GENUINE PACKET®& 


“Other Heroic Deeds” 
The Vienna Tugeblatt says “ that! 
Germany today can and may speak 
of peace in its triumph. Nobody can | 
discover the faintest sign of weariness 
on the part of the Central Powers, | 
who, at the height of their achieve- | 
ments, can plant the standard of 
humanity.” Suggest that the afore- 
said standard of humanity be emblaz- 
oned with Herod’s massacre of the 
innocents, bordered with scraps of, 
paper, and representations of bom-, 
bardments of hospitals, sinking of 
Red Cross ships, brutality to prisoners, 
the execution of Miss Cavell, blind- 
ing opponents with gas flames and 
other heroic deeds.-New York Tele- 
gram. 


Relief from Asthma. Who can de- 
scribe the complete relief from suffer- 
ing which follows the use of Dr. J. D. 
Kellogg's Asthma Remedy? Who can 
express the feeling of joy that comes 
when its soft and gentle influence re- 
lieves the tightened, choking air tubes! 
It has made asthmatic affliction a 


thing of the past for thousands. It 
never fails. Good druggists everywhere 
have sold it for years. 


A Bedouin Wonder 

Bedouin Guide, in the service of 
the British Army, is reported as know- 
ing every track from Cairo to Turkey. 
He is over sixty years of age. He 
also possesses magic power over cam- 
els, when their riders fail to keep them 
going, the Bedouin, it is said, touches 
them with a wand dipped in water, 
and instantly they leap to their feet 
and sail away. 


The most obstinate corns and warts 
fail to resist Hoiloway’s Corn Cure. 
Try it. 


Foggs (in London tor the first time) 
Hi! policeman, I’ve just missed 
my wife. If she should come along 
will you ask her to wait here for me? 

Policeman—But how am I to know 
her? 

Foggs— Ah, to be sure, hadn't 
thought of that. Well, tell her not 
to wait 


Many of Them Do 
“Did you say he lived in New York 
day in and day out?” 
“No, day in and night out.”—Judge. 


yr’ $ 


Moose Jaw 
July 11 to 14 


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These polishes contain no acid and 
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Famous Western Bucking Horse Will 
be One of the Attractions at the 
Moose Jaw Stampede 


‘‘Maple Creek,’’ considered by west- 
ern cattlemen to be the best crooked- 
bucking horse in the world, and the 
animal that gave Emery LaGrande, 
the world's champion bucking-horse 
rider, the hardest ride of his career 
at the Gleichen, Alta., Stampede last 
year, has been secured to test the skill 
of the cowboys who will ride at the 
big Moose Jaw Stampede, July llth 
to 14th. 

‘Maple Creek”’ is a three year old, 
and is owned by A. P. Day, of Medi- 
cine Hat. Originally he was the pet 
saddle horse of an Alberta rancher’s 
daughter. One winter she left him in 
the stable on an oat diet, and the first 
tine she mounted him for a spring 
nde he bucked her over the fenc: into 
the ditch. The rancher couldn’t un- 
derstand this, as he was always a 
gentle horse, and he mounted ‘‘Maple 
Creek,” and was likewise precipitated 
over the fence. ‘Three of the young 
woman’s cowboy admirers then sought 
to conquer the beast, and’ were them- 
selves conquered, so that he was given 
up as an incorrigible outlaw, no longer 
fit for riding. It was then that Day 
learned of him and purchased him for 
the Gleichen Stampede and his reputa- 
tion has been growing rapidly ever 
since, 

This famous horse, and a dozen of 
others of great reputation as buckers, 
will be seen at the Stampede, and 
there are many who are wagering that | 
more than one cowboy will wish 
‘Maple Creek” and his kind had never 
been heard of before the four days of 
the Stampede have elapsed. 


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‘Paper Coal’ for Alpine Soldiers 

The problem for supplying the sol- 
diers of Italy with fuel while they are 
battling up in the mountains wholly 
bare of wood is being met by patriotic 
girls and boys at hame. The new fuel 
is called ‘coal paper,” though ‘“‘paper 
coal” would do as well. 

Paper can of course be compressed 
to such a solidity that car-wheels have 
been made from it. Such a consist- 
ency of material should burn like coal, 
and, though information is lacking 
as to the specific quality of the emer 
ency ‘‘coal,” the compression is suf- 
ficient to render it excellent slow- 
burning fuel. In all the big cities ot 
Italy there have been organized bands 
of boys and girls who zo round and 
collect all the papers they can find. 
These are brought to establishments 
where other boys and girls, under the 
direction of women _ teachers, turn 
these papers into solid rolls and sec- 
tions, afterwards cut into chunks 
These are packed into individual bags 
and distributed among the soldiers in 
the bleak mountains. In case a sol- 
dier desires to have a little hot soup 
or coffee he takes out three or four 
pieces of ‘‘coal paper,” and his hot 
meal is soon ready. 


Ask for Minard’s and take no other. 


Hun ‘Kultur” at the Cameroons 

Now that the Cameroon war is at 
an end and this colony is in the pos- 
session of the Allies, two notable ex- 
ploits that may be mentioned were 
the transport of big guns over hun- 
dreds of miles of territory. 

One 95m. French gun was taken to 
Garua, a distance of over 600 miles, 
during the dry season, while a British 
naval 12-pounder was also taken hun- 
dreds of miles vp the Benue River. 
In this work valuable assistance was 
given by the Nigerian Marine. The 
native troops behaved with the great- 
est pluck, gallantry and devotion. 

Generally speaking it must be said 
that the behavior of the Germans was 
bad, and in many cases atrocious. 
There were many instances of non- 
combatants inhabitants being mutilat- 
ed in the most revolting fashion. In 
one case a German white man was 
seen by a British officer deliberately 
cutting the throats of wounded native 
troops with his open knife. 


Simple and Sure.—Dr. Thomas’ 
Electric Oil is so simple in application 
that a child can understand the m- 
structions. Used as a liniment the 
only direction is to rub, and when 
used as a dressing to apply. The direc- 
tions are so plain and unmistakable 
that they are readily understood by 
young or old, 


Captured Their Captors 

“Turning the tables’ in war times 
is a form of surprise not at all un- 
known to an army. A good apropos 
of the fact comes from Petrograd. 
‘In the fighting in the region west 
of Aschkala the Turks surrounded a 
Russian detachment formed of réserve 
soldiers, These reservists were taken 
into captivity by the Turks, but, pre- 
ferring a glorious death to shameful 
surrender, with their non-commission- 
ed officers at their head, fell upon 
the Turkish escort, overcome it, and 
foreed it to join their brave regi- 
ment!” 


Minard’s Liniment used by Physic- | 


lans, 


Hammers 


Hammers were originally fashioned 
from the model of an outstretched 
human arm and fist. 


A Person of Importance 

While on a hunting trip through 
Canada last summer a New York club- 
man met a quaint character. This 
man was of French extraction and he 
was very proud of a friend of his in 
New York, one Gaston Lespinasse, of 
whom he talked constantly. 

“You live in New York?’ he at 
once asked when the Gothamite ap- 


“I do.” 
“You know Gaston Lespinasse?” 
“No, I don’t think I ever heard of 
him.” 

The Canadian seemed disappointed 
as well as nonplused. Then he began 
again: 

‘You live in New York?” 

“Yes,” 

“You do not know Gaston Lespin- 
asse?’* 

“Never heard of him.” 

The Canuck grinned incredulously. 
Then, with the air of one convicting 
another out of his own mouth, he 
added: 

“Gaston is the cook at the hotel.” 


A Tip From Sister 
Jack—I’m in a quandary, sis. I want 
to propose to Mabel, but I’m not sure 
she’d accept me. His sister (who 
knows)—Jack, you’re like the letter 
‘b’—in doubt when there’s no need 
of it.—Boston Transcript. 


The suggestion is being put forward 
that a flag should be designed as the 
Standard of the Allied Nations. 


Before Peace Comes 
Allies’ Peace Must be For the Future 
Security of the World 


It is a self-evident truth that the 
Allies could not call off the war, even | 
with everything restored to the same 
basis as existed before August, 1914, 
without leaving themselves open to 
exactly such another general assault 
as was hurled against them twenty- 
two months ago. 

France might be restored, Belgium 
might be returned, Poland might be 
redeemed and Serbia recreated. But 
unless the military machine which had 
done the damage in the first instance 
were smashed they could feel no as- 
surance that the same thing would not 
be done to them over again. Failing 
the smash of that military machine 
there would be nothing left for them 
to do but proceed with all possible 
dispatch to build up around the Cen- 
tral Powers a series of great military 
machines with which to meet the next 
attack. 

But this would be more militarism 
than ever, if it did not, in fact, pre- 
cipitate another war almost before 
the smoke of battle of this one had 
floated away; because naturally the 
Prussian military machine would aim 
again to strike before the other ma- 
chines could be perfected. 

It is also self-evident truth that 
so long as she commands the sea 
Great Britain can go on with this war 
as she is now going on. With her 
battle fleets she can keep the Central 
Powers bottled up as she now keeps 
them bottled up; she can sit secure be- 
hind her floating fortresses of steel 
as she now sits secure; she can go on 
reviving her foreign trade with the 
world as she is now reviving it. 

Clear across on the other side of 
Europe stands colossal Russia, inex- 
haustible and invincible. In many re- 
spects Russia is better off today than 
she was two years ago; if the war 
goes on she can be suill better off two 
years from now than she is today. 
Russia has vastly more to lose now 
from an unsatisfactory peace, leaving 
the future threatened, than from in- 
definite war. 

So it all resolves itself down to a 
question of what France wishes to do. 
Who can doubt what is the desire and 
what is the will of France—France 
the brave, France the heroic, France 
the noble—among all the splendid 
figures of nations on this vast battle- 
field of the Old World, France the 
superlatively great and sublimely glor- 
ious? 

France cannot possibly want any 
ending of the war which will not leave 
the integrity of her territory, the wel- 
fare of her people and the liberty of 
her institutions as secure in the fu- 
ture as all through this war she has 
kept and, no man can doubt, will keep 
to its end, her honor.—From the New 
York Press. 


Stingy Millionaires 
Mr. Justice Craig, speaking in To- 
ronto, said that ‘‘millionaires are 
giving far less than the men who have 
a few thousands. and he knew of one 
millionaire who is keeping back good, ! 


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RN. 
BLISTERS, 
“SORE FEET. 


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lor one of our 
fashionable Ladies’ 
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THINGS COUNT 


Even inamatch you should 
consider the “Little Things,” 
the weod—the composition— 
the strikeability—the flame. 


EDDY’S 
MATCHES 


are made of strong dry pine 
stems, with a secret perfected 
composition that guarantees 
“Every Match A Light.” 65 
years of knowing how—that’s 
the reason! 


All Eddy products are de- 
pendable products—Always. 


ARLINGTON 


WATERPROOF COLLARS AND CUFFS 


Something better than linen and big laund 
bills. Wash it with soap and water. A 


stores or direct. State style and size. o 


healthy sons and giving practically | 25c. we will mail you. 


nothing to any fund, while his neigh- 
bor has crippled himself financially 
and given five sons to the Empire 
besides.” Conscription is needed in 
that millionaire’s family. It is a fact 
not always borne in mind that a poor 
man who gives a dollar often gives 
more proportionately than a rich man! 
who gives a thousand.—Ottawa Jour- 
nal. 

Mr. Gnaggs—I suppose you women 
think second thoughts are best. Mrs, 
Gnaggs—Not always. You may re- 
member I refused you the first time 
you asked me to marry you.—Philadel- 
phia Record. 


THE ARLINGTON COMPANY OF 
CANADA, Limited 
5S Fraser Avenue, Torento, Ontarie 


Unfinished Work 

What a sickening sense of failure 
the Germans will feel if they make 
peace and leave a million babies un- 
strafed and un-Zeppelined in Eng- 
land.—New York Sun. 

There recently entered a Washing. 
ton shop a dusky person who announe- 
ed that he wished to purchase a razor. 

“Safety?” asked the clerk. 

“No, suh,” was the decided response 
“T desires it for social usage.” 


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In these trying complaints Dr. Cassell’s Tablets 
are of proved value. They restore perfect efficiency 
to the kidneys by nourishing the nerves which 
control kidney action, and thus enable the system 
to get rid of uric acid and other impurities whch are the cause 
of Urinary Troubles, Dropsy, and Rheumatism, 

Dr. Chas. Forshaw, D.Sc. 


ness. 


and kidney troubles,” 


when other means fail. 


young. 


Flesh, and 


y iy 
ath} $ MW 


- may cause! DROPSY. 
. BACKACHE.or GENERAL | 


Dr. Cassell’s Tablets are the Proved Remedy. 
Take them fer all Kidney & Urinary Troubles. 


, F.CS., etc., the well-known 
scientist, says : ‘‘I have thoroughly tested Dr Cassell’s Tablets, 
and can conscientiously recommend them as an eminently safe 
and effective remedy for all ferms of nerve and bodily weak- 
My know!cdge of Dr, Cassell’s Tablets leads me to the 
opinion that the ingredients form a remarkably potent medicine, 
quite safe for young and old in cases of nervous prostration, 
debility, anzmia, loss of flesh, malnutritron, children’s weak- 
ness, spinal and nerve paralysts, and many forms of stomach 


Dr. Cassell’s Tablets raise the vital standard of the entire 
system, and thts promote kidney health and general health 


; Dr, Cassell’s Tablets are Nutritive, Restorative, Alterative, 

m and AntiSpasmodic, and of great Therapeutic value in all 
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They are the recognised home remedy for Nervous 
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Palpitation, Wasting Diseases, Vital Exhaustion, Loss of 
Premature Decay. 
Nursing Mothers and during the Critical Periods of Life. 


Druggists and Dealers throughout Canada sell Dr. Cassell's 


| ig Tablets. If not procurable im your city send to the sole agents, * 
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aes one tube 50 cents, six tubes for the price of five. 


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DROPS 


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vat 


RHEUMATISM, 


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Send vour name and. address 
and 5 cents for postage, etc., to 
Harold F, Ritchie & Co., Ltd., 
10, McCaw! Street, Toronto, and 
a senerons sample will be mailed 


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PAPERS 


0,°50¢. ict 


To those who have a car and those 
who are thinking of owning one 


_ Listen 


By actual count there were 142 car owners that paid 
admission to the grounds on Stampede Day. Of these 
114 were Ford owners, against 28 of all other makes of 
carson the ground. Just think, 114 were wise, a good 


percentage. Isn't that enough to satisfy you which is 


the correct car to buy. 


Ford 


IHL UNIVERSAL CARN 


Wheat 


Thursday, July 13, by ca 


“ec oe 


Oats, street price, 


s! 


Many of our citizens are ex- 
pecting to take in the picnic at 
Social plains, to-morrow, July 
14. 


Acquire the habit of health 
by using Rexall Orderlies the 
modern laxative. 15¢ and 25c, 
Sold only at Rexall Drug Stores. 


Mr. R.8. lyler is having the 
exterior of the Grand Theatre 
repainted. 


A number of our citizens who 
nutoed to Havre, Montana, and 
took in the stampede there 
have now returned. They re- 
port a good time, 


Local machine agents already 
haye quite a number of binders 
spoken fur. Each agent states 
ithat he can only procure a cer- 
tain number of these machines. 
It is expected that they will be 
lunable to fill all orders. 


Che bridge meeting is called 
ltor 8 p.m. ‘falk this matter up 
to your friends, ‘Telling us 
inext momning why you “could 
jnot?” attend, will not help to 
solve this question. BE THERE 


Owing to the absence of the 
pastor, Rey. Davis, there will 
be no services in the Anglican 
church on Sunday next. Rev. 
Duvis left on Monday for Re- 
gina and Qu'Appelle. He will 
attend the Sunday School Sum- 
mer School, held July 11, 12 
and 13 ut Qu’Appelle, 


Storey Has Them 


At Prices That Are Right 


MR. FARMER! 


GET YOUR TWINE 


before it’s too late 


Ne» = (OR= 1 


Yours for Quality Goods and Low Prices 


[ , 
The Store of High-Class Merchandise 


SUMMER 


With its attendant ‘“‘ HOT WEATHER” is now upon us, bring- 
ing an increased demand for 


Fruits and Ready-to-Eat Foods 
A Few of Our Hot Weather Specials : 


Cooked Ham 
Bologna 
Prameal Bacon 
Peanut Butter 
New Cheese 


Jelly Powders 
Breakfast Foods 
Fancy Biscuits 
Fruits in Season 
Grape Juices 

Soft Drinks 

ALL KINDS OF SPECIAL MEAT SAUCKS, PICKLES 

YOMATO CATSUP, OLIVES, Ite. 


W. R. Brodie 
General Merchant 


JOB PRINTING 


For a Good Job of Printing, 


executed with neatness and taste 


Try the “Express” Office. 


Mrs. Margaret Hudgins, and 
daughter Helen, of Maydock, 
Ont., who have been spending 
the past months in Empress as 
the guests of J. S. Herity, left 
on Wednesday morning for 
the east. They expect to visit 
frieuds at Strathmoor and Tor- 
onto before returning to their 
home at Maydock. 


Mrs, F. Botsford 1s seriously 
sick in the Empress private hos- 
pital which is conducted by 
Nurse Brown, Mrs. Botsford 
is one of the popular 
ladiey in our town, and her ab- 
sence from LO.DE. and other 
public and charitable work will 
be much regretted. We trust 
that her sickness will be of but 
short duration, 


most 


An excellent sample of this 
season's flax was brought to 
town on Saturday, July 28, -by 
Mr. D. McRae. The plants 
which had been taken from the 
ground that morning, measured 
25 ins. in length and were in 
flower, Mr. McRae, whose 
farm is on W., 4, 12, 22, 2, W. 4, 
sowed the seed on May 9 He 
has twenty acres of land sown 
to flax, which grain is all in the 
game advanced stage as the 
sample described. 


Secretary Blodgett of the 
Board of Trade, is in receipt of 
a communication from the See- 
retary of Acadia Municipality, 
requesting the local Board to 
co-operate with their council in 
an effort to secure telephone 
communication from Oyen, 
through Acadia Valley to Hm- 
The proposition will be 
by the 


press. 
given every support 
local Board of Trade. 

Mr. Arch. Bell, formerly pro- 
prietor of the Queen's Hotol at 
Reyina, has taken over the res- 
taurant building on Centre St., 
which is owned by H, A. Loeb, 
Mr. Bell is having the place 
thoroughly overhauled and re- 
decorated, with the intention of 
opening the building up as a 
first-class restaurant and room- 
ing house. Mr. Bell has had 
much experience in this line of 
business, 


om m= rRESS, 


by the load, 


Lodal and Personal 


EMPRESS 


Prices 


At Empress 


1 Nor., 1.00 


.98 


r lots, No. 


“é 


34c; car lots, 36} 


Typewriters, typewriter sup 
plies, counter check books, all 
kinds of printed and commer- 
cial stationery, ete; call or 
write us-—The Empress Express 


A great scarcity of fence 
posts is reported from all quart- 
ers, The Revelstoke Sawmill 
Co,, has secured a cav of good 
good large willow posts. If 
you requiae any, the next day 
day ov two will be a good time 
to load them. 


Do not try to persnade your- 
self that you have a legitimate 
excuse for not attending the 
bridge meeting on Monday 
next. It is a question (hat con 
cerns you as well as the other 
fellow. Don't expect him to 
go ahead, and then afterwards 
“shoot-off your head” and tell 
him “what should be done.” 


Mr. W. EF. Heintz, of 
peg General Inspector for the 
Winnipeg, Transatlantic Loan 
Company was a business visitor 


Winni- 


here over Saturday and Sun-} 
has some} 


day. The company 
two million dollars to joan on 
improved farm property at 
eight per vent interest. Atter 
an inspection of the Empress 
district, Mr. Heintz decided to 
place a local agency witb M. 
A. Blodgett, real estate agent 
and insurance man, 


“Owing to rain the stampede 
at Empres? showed a deficit of 
$670.78. The first day was a 
grand success bnt it rained con- 
tinuously the second day. 
However, the receipts were 
$5,610.05, which makes it posi- 
tive that had the weather not 
interceded the patriotic funds 
would have received a big 
boost. A number attended 
trom Gleichen and were well 
pleased with all they saw.’—The 
Call, Gleichen, 


Farmers of the dis rich hav-} 
ing yood field crops in wheat | 
and oats, should enter for the! 


the Field Grain Competition. 
One hundred and fitty dollars 
in prize money is to be paid for 
the best crops in these classes, 
and prizes will be divided 
first, second and third money, 
Any farmer is eligible to enter 
the competition upon payment 
of the entry fee and member- 
ship fee of one dollar, Entries 
should be made to M. A. Blod- 
gett, Secretary of the Empress 
{Agricultural Society. I'he com- 
petition is under the auspices 
of the latter society. Get your 
entries in at once, 


We are in receipt of a letter 
from Mr. D. M. McIntosh, who 
was formerly a resident of Kim- 
Mr. Melntosh js now 
residing at | Nokomis. He 
.. Dam always ready 


press, 


writes, ", 
for the 

fand must congratulate you on 
the steady growth of the town 
and the good crops in the sur- 
Tam still a 


news from Empress, 


rounding councry,. 
strong believer in the future of 
Ympress, not only it’s “ loea- 
tion,’ which is a very important 


part, but it's ‘boosters’ who 
have carried it through the 
D> 


hard-time peried and are now 


BARGAIN! 
Second-Hand ORGAN for Sale in 


first-class condition 
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Cut Glass, Fancy Goods 
Pianos, Player Pianos, Organs, Sheet Music, Player Rolls 
Gramophones and Records 


B. L. DAWDY & CO. 


JEWELRY and MUSIC STORES 
Issuers of Marriage Licenses for Alberta and Saskatchewan 


EMPRESS CASH GROCERY 
Headquarters for High-Class 


Groceries at Lowest Prices 
Plain Dishes Crocks 


COLE & BELFIE 


Flower Pots 


“YOU CAN GET IT AT THE REVELSTOKE ” 


S—— Live In Your 
hia Own House 


Life isshort and a good home pays 
big dividends in comfort, pleasure and 
happiness. 

If you want to build a nice, cheery 
cosy home, one you will be proud of, 
we can figure it to suit your pocket— 
no matter how large or small it may be 


— 


REVELSTOKE SAWMILL CO., LTD. 


‘Everything to build with ”’ 
EMPRESS, Alberta. 


‘ 


F. H. PEARCE, Manager 


oney 8 p. ¢. 


We 


| million dollars to loan 


have about two 


on Improved Farm Pro- 
perty during this season 


Rate of Int. 8 p. C. 


For particulars and prompt 
service apply to 


BLODGETT THIRD AVE. 


HCD, OVLID) IRIBILIVN ALIS,” 
ee 


L 


UNION 
BA INIK 


OF CANADA 


Bank by Mail and 
Save Long Drives 


Mail us the cheques or cash 
you receive, with your Pass- 
book, which we will return 
with the Deposit credited. Then you can pay your bills by cheques, 
which we will honor, or if you want the cash yourself, send us a 
cheque In your own favor and we will forward the money by return 
mail, 

Prop in and talk to the Manager about It. 


reaping the benefits, Muelosed 
find order for $2.00 for the ‘Ex- 
press. ...S5end it as long as 
tne money will last and then 
let me know. Crops are doing 
well in this district. Lots of 
rain and fine weather, prospects 


are good tor a harvest... 


Yours truly, 
D. M. MeIntosh” 


Empress Branch 


Your Subscription 
Is It Due? 


Pay before the Advance in Price 


- W.M. CROSBIE, Manager